Cunning Passages: New Historicism, Cultural Materialism and Marxism in the Contemporary Literary Debate

by Jeremy Hawthorn

Cunning Passages explores the implications that literary debates have for our attempts to understand both reports of historical events such as Hiroshima or the Nazi holocaust, and also fictional and poetic works whose relation to historical actuality is more complex and indirect.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996