“新历史主义”这一术语源于1980年美国文学批评家斯蒂芬.格林布拉特的著作《文艺复兴的自我塑造:从莫尔到莎士比亚》。而“文化唯物主义”最初由英国新左派理论家雷蒙.威廉斯在《马克思主义和文学》中提出。由于二者出现的时间相近,主要观点又有许多相似之处,所以常被相提并论 The term “neo-historicism” has its roots in the 1980 1980 American literary critic Stephen Greenbrat’s self-styled “Renaissance Self: From More to Shakespeare.” The “cultural materialism” was first proposed by “LeMonkey Williams”, a British New Left theorist, in “Marxism and Literature.” Because of the similarities between the two, the main points of view have many similarities and are often compared