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Article: Cunning Passages: New Historicism, Cultural Materialism and Marxism in the Contemporary Literary Debate.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Cunning Passages: New Historicism, Cultural Materialism and Marxism in the Contemporary Literary Debate. By JEREMY HAWTHORN. (Interrogating Texts) London, New York, and Sydney: Arnold. 1996.x+245 pp. [pound]35 (paperbound [pound]12.99).
I was reading (and comfortably into) this book on the day of the November 1996 national strike by teachers and other workers in British universities. Having done my stint on the picket line, I returned to the book (as pleasure, not 'work', of course) with the sense that the two events (reading and picketing) had produced a similar, not unpleasant, experience of something 'returning', which, whilst often manifested in irritating ...