The New Historicism

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The New Historicism is a critical movement in literary theory that interprets texts through the lens of their historical and cultural contexts, emphasizing the interplay of power, discourse, and ideology.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf critical movement
historical approach to literature
literary theory
appliesTo Renaissance literature
Shakespeare studies
early modern literature
associatedWithScholar Catherine Gallagher NERFINISHED
H. Aram Veeser
Jonathan Goldberg NERFINISHED
Louis A. Montrose NERFINISHED
Stephen Greenblatt
contrastsWith New Criticism
formalist criticism
old historicism
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
developedInPeriod late 20th century
emergedInDecade 1980s
emphasizes circulation of power through discourse
contingency of historical narratives
embeddedness of texts in social practices
historicity of texts
intertextuality between literary and non-literary texts
mutual shaping of literature and culture
field critical theory
cultural studies
literary studies
hasCritic formalists
some Marxist critics
traditional historians
influencedBy Clifford Geertz
Louis Althusser
Marxist theory
Michel Foucault
Stephen Greenblatt
cultural materialism
poststructuralism
institutionalizedIn Anglophone academia
keyConcept cultural practices
discourse
ideology
power
representation
subjectivity
thick description
mainFocus historical and cultural contexts of texts
interplay of power, discourse, and ideology
relationship between literature and history
majorWork Learning to Curse
Renaissance Self-Fashioning
The New Historicism self-linksurface differs
surface form: The New Historicism (edited by H. Aram Veeser)
methodologicalFeature analysis of power relations in texts
attention to marginal or suppressed voices
juxtaposition of literary texts with historical anecdotes
use of archival and non-literary documents
viewOnAuthor author as historically situated subject
viewOnHistory history as constructed narrative
viewOnText text as a product of its historical moment

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University of California Press notableSeries The New Historicism
The New Historicism majorWork The New Historicism self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: New Historicism
this entity surface form: The New Historicism (edited by H. Aram Veeser)