1.  Name:Kashmiraba G. Jadeja
 Roll No.: 10
 M.A. 1 Sem.2
 The Cultural studies
 Topic: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
 Submitted To: Dr. Dilip Barad
 Department of english
 M.K. Bhavnagar University
 2012- 2013

2. New Historicism:
 Definition
“New historicism is a method based on the
parallel reading of literary and non-literary
texts, usually of the same historical period.”

3. New historicism
involves
Paralles study Paralles study
of literary text of non-literary
text

4. Faucoult’s work
State
Prisons
Punishment
Legislation about
Medical sexuality
profession

5. New Historicists:
 Juxtapose literary and non-literary text
 Defamiliarise the conical literary text
 Focus attention on state power
 Use post structuralist

6. Cultural
Materialism
Historical Theoretical
context method
Political Textual
comment analysis

7. Cultural materialists:
1 Read literary text to ‘Recovers its Histories’
2Forground transmission and contextuatising
3 Combine Marxist and Feminist approach
4 Use the technique of textual analysis
5 Work mainly within traditional notion