A school of literary theory developed in the 1980s, aiming simultaneously to understand a work through its cultural context and to understand intellectual history through literature.

The politics associated with the New Deal, a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 in response to the Great Depression, focusing on relief, recovery, and reform.

A person from New England

(historical) An educated, independent feminist of the late 19th century.

plural of New Woman

A movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle of the 20th century, emphasizing close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.

A special municipality in northern Taiwan

(uncommon, historical) Of or pertaining to New England. / (historical) Of or pertaining to English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.

A variety of English that has come into being in a region where English was a former colonial language or is a foreign language. / (historical, uncommon, in the plural) New Englanders.