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New Historicism is a literary practice which came into being in the early 1980s. The most distinctive concepts and procedures of this literary analysis and interpretation are assimilated from various poststructural theorists. Stephen Greenblatt inaugurated the popularity of the label "New Historicism" in his introduction to a special issue of
Xiaotang Lyu (Fri,) studied this question.