Red Comet : The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 15
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- ISBN
- 9780307961167
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This comprehensive biography of Sylvia Plath contains 1,152 pages of original research, drawn from archival collections in the UK and US, author interviews with over 50 of Sylvia Plath’s contemporaries, and a wide-range of published sources. It features newly available information about Plath’s life and medical treatment from the Harriet Rosenstein Collection at Emory University, which opened to researchers in 2020. The biography also includes a history of the midcentury Boston and London literary culture, medical history relating to midcentury psychiatric practices in America and Britain, and close analysis of a number of Plath’s poems.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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