ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -His most popular work is Will in the World, a biography of Shakespeare that was on The New York Times Best Seller list for nine weeks. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2012 and the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2011 for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.

Detailed explanation-4: -In fact, Stephen Greenblatt had used the other term, cultural poetics, for New Historicism but the academic circle was used to New Historicism.