Jing Liu

Caged Madwomen: Plath and Dickinson’s Resistance

This paper explores the “madwoman” in the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson. In 19th- and 20th-century America, women held a lowly status, with domesticity as their sole role. Yet Dickinson’s ideas transcended her era, while Plath’s thinking was ahead of the conservative 1950s-1960s. Though separated by a cent...