Reflecting on The Bell Jar

Reflecting on The Bell Jar (first published in 1991) acknowledges the repressive post-war regime of social hygiene. Pat Macpherson's reading takes into account the fundamental rearrangement of the social contract between citizen and state, built on the newly made connections between national security and mental health.

Auteur

Pat Macpherson taught English at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia for 13 years and received her MA in Women's Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury.