ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Greenblatt argues that New Historicism, by contrast, works to remain always attuned to the contradictions of any historical moment, including those moments dominated by capitalism.

Detailed explanation-2: -In this introduction, Greenblatt differentiated what he called the “New Historicism” from both the New Criticism, which views the text as a selfcontained structure, and the earlier historicism which was monological and attempted to discover a unitary political vision.

Detailed explanation-3: -Greenblatt coined the term new historicism when he “collected a bunch of essays and then, out of a kind of desperation to get the introduction done, he wrote that the essays represented something called a ‘new historicism’".

Detailed explanation-4: -New Historicism is a literary theory based on the idea that literature should be studied and intrepreted within the context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic.