@inbook{06f9eee463194d339f40c35c5b91f58d,
title = "P(l)athography: Plath and Her Biographers",
abstract = "Heather Clark reveals the powerful impact of Plath biographers. Splicing the words pathology, biography, and Plath{\textquoteright}s name, she coins the term P(l)athographers. Clark helps us to understand their cumulative practice of distortedly mythologizing Plath and misdirecting readers{\textquoteright} interpretations of her writing. For Clark, Plath{\textquoteright}s English Tripos exam at Cambridge offers us more understanding of Plath{\textquoteright}s poetics than her relationship with her dead father ever could.",
keywords = "reductive, biography, pathology, mythologising, Poetics, afterlife, confessional writing, literary legacy, misreadin",
author = "Heather Clark",
year = "2019",
month = aug,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1017/9781108556200.035",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781108470131",
series = "Literature in Context",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
pages = "360--370",
editor = "Tracy Brain",
booktitle = "Sylvia Plath in Context",
address = "United Kingdom",
}