This paper presents an explanation for the development of the relationship between history and literature. This development has led to the evolution of New Historicism and its revolutionary tendency in analyzing literary and non-literary texts. New Historicism was the outcome of a history of questioning history. New Historicism rejects history's attachment to the field of science and its monopoly of representing the past truth. New Historicism developed Robin George Collingwood and Hyden White ideas that discussed the similarities and commonalities between history and literature. New Historicism developed also the poststructuralists' thoughts regarding the power of the society as a formulator of the historical text. So that, New Historicism contemplates the social powers and the ideologies that stand behind the production as well as the interpretation of texts.
This paper is divided into subtitles. These titles tackles: an explanation of New Historicism, New Historicism's tendency towards culture, and the employment of anecdotes in the New Historicist's reading of texts.
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