Anybody want to help me brainstorm a few theses?

I have to do them with a New Historicism leaning, and it has to be relatively well-known texts. I've been reading up on this all week, but I still don't think I "get" it. I understand you have to take into account the cultural and historical time period the work was written during and the author lived in, and also understand that history is subjective, but I just can't get any sort of thesis working in my head. It just seems like the same thing as Cultural Criticism to me, with I guess a little more historical/biographical leaning.

But anyway. I don't know. Would something like, the sexualization of young girls, as in Nabokov's Lolita, resulted from the popularization of certain well-known TV idols? Or would that be Cultural? I'm not too knowledgeable about history, so this is doubly difficult for me.