Its name was coined for a special issue of Genre focusing on the (*) Renaissance, the editor of which later founded the journal Representations and proclaimed "I began with a desire to speak with the dead" to describe his work on Shakespeare, which later produced Will in the World.
Brook Thomas linked this movement with Pragmatism in a book about [It] and Other Old-Fashioned Topics, while Catharine Gallagher applied it to Victorian women's writing in Nobody's Story and co-wrote a book about Practicing it along with its most famous theorist. The first anthology named for this movement was edited by Harold Vesser and featured work by Stephen Bann, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Louis Montrose. Its name was coined for a special issue of Genre focusing on the (*) Renaissance, the editor of which later founded the journal Representations and proclaimed "I began with a desire to speak with the dead" to describe his work on Shakespeare, which later produced Will in the World. For 10 points, name this movement associated with Stephen Greenblatt, who calls it "cultural poetics," which opposes formalisms in its attempt to renew the examination of literature's chronological context.
Brook Thomas linked this movement with Pragmatism in a book about [It] and Other Old-Fashioned Topics, while Catharine Gallagher applied it to Victorian women's writing in Nobody's Story and co-wrote a book about Practicing it along with its most famous theorist.
{New Historicism}