In Interdisciplinarity, Joe Moran discusses the importance of literature to history as a discipline and its development as science. New Historicism is a shift in the way historians look at history. Marxism is a prime example. Marxism states that history shapes the production of art, culture and ideas. On these grounds, we are able to study history by looking critically at the art, culture and ideas that existed during a certain time period. Marxist schools of thought and the emergence of new historicism have strongly influenced the way historians think, not only in regards to socio-political structure, but also in the way history relates to art, culture and the social sciences.
English Majors Practising Criticism