Sylvia Plath's The bell jar /
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
- New York, NY : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2009.
- 175 p. ; 23 cm.
- Bloom's guides .
Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Howard Moss on illness and disclosure in the novel -- Vance Bourjaily on pseudonyms and alternate identities -- Robert Scholes on Plath's use of realism -- Linda W. Wagner on the female coming-of-age novel -- E. Miller Budick on Plath's feminist discourse -- Diane S. Bonds on Esther's tentative rebirth -- Paula Bennett on models of womanhood -- Pat Macpherson on the portrayal of social and gender conventions -- Tim Kendall on Esther's search for identity -- Marilyn Boyer on language and disability -- Kate A. Baldwin on the novel's social and political contexts -- Janet Badia on pop culture appropriations of The bell jar -- Works by Sylvia Plath -- Annotated bibliography.