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Although primarily postcolonial, Bhabha's concepts of hybridity and the third space have been influential in New Historicist readings of texts.

In New Historicism, language and communication understood as a form of social practice that shapes and is shaped by power dynamics.

To place a literary work within its specific historical context for analysis, emphasizing the period's cultural and social dynamics.

A New Historicist concept that looks at how literary works both challenge and reinforce societal norms and power structures.

A concept from Mikhail Bakhtin that New Historicists use to describe the multiplicity of voices in a text and its social contexts.

An influential New Historicist scholar who emphasized the textuality of history and the historicity of texts.

An approach within New Historicism that examines the literary texts as part of the articulation of a culture’s self-understanding.

An American literary critic and theorist who is considered the founder of New Historicism.

A term originating in anthropology that New Historicists use to describe a highly detailed account of a cultural practice.

A noted New Historicist critic who has worked extensively on the literature of the British 18th and 19th centuries.

The New Historicist approach that studies the interconnections between texts and how literature influences and is influenced by other works.

A branch of New Historicism that combines political critique with the analysis of historical context, often within a Marxist framework.

A French philosopher whose ideas on power, knowledge, and discursive practices influenced New Historicists.

An approach to literary criticism that emphasizes the interaction between a work of literature and the historical context of its creation and reception.

A New Historicist practice of interpreting literary works through an examination of the social, political, and cultural contexts in which they were created.

In New Historicism, the examination of how historical and social power relationships are reflected in literature.

A method, adapted by New Historicists from Foucault, that traces the history of discourses and ideas to understand how they have come to be constituted.

Another term for New Historicism that highlights the analysis of literature in the context of cultural expressions and power relations.

A New Historicist principle stating that multiple discourses co-exist at any given moment and influence each other.