The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

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by Jacqueline Rose

Harvard University Press

Due/Published August 1993, 288 pages, paper

ISBN 0674382269

Since her death at the age of thirty, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon-an object of intense speculation, of fantasy, repulsion, and desire. Jacqueline Rose stands back from the debates, and looks instead at the swirl of controversy, recognizing it as a phenomenon itself.