Okay guys—in case you were confused, New Historicism isn’t just a bunch of moldy abstract ideas; it’s a practice you can put to use in real life. In this book, two of the most important scholars in the field show us how New Historicism is done.
But for real, what’s the diff? Why do Gallagher and Greenblatt insist that New Historicism is more of a “practice” than a “theory”? What, in their opinion, is the difference between practice and theory?
Why, according to Gallagher and Greenblatt, is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature so useful?