Noun
new historicism (uncountable)
A school of literary theory developed in the 1980s, aiming simultaneously to understand a work through its cultural context and to understand intellectual history through literature.
The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. [...] To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense. Camille Paglia