What is the relationship between the practices of New Historicism and New Criticism ?

• A. New Historicism was a reaction against New Criticism, which was seen as too narrowly focused on text rather than context.
• B. Both fields of literary study are American in origin.
• C. New Historicism is simply an early form of Cultural Materialism.
• D. Both fields of study are strictly focused on how readers interpret and invent meanings for literary texts.