What new historicists are concerned with is the recovery of the original ideology which gave birth to the text and which the text in turn helped to disseminate throughout a culture.
New historicism is a collection of practices rather than a school or a method. To further buttress this, Stephen Greenblatt who is considered as the one of the founders of this theory gave a list of the theory’s distinguishing characteristics:
• New historicists think of culture as a semiotic system, as a network of signs.
• They, therefore, are resistant to disciplinary hegemony, finding