Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

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Date of occurrence 1932-05-15-1953-10

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Scrutiny

(1932-53) was a Cambridge-based quarterly literary review devoted principally to criticism, education, and broader cultural history. It played a unique role in the literary culture of its time, with significant influence lasting into the 1970s, in refining a “modernist” conception of criticism, chiefly inspired by T. S. Eliot and I. A. Richards, in the form of an educational campaign for the training of critical judgement in schools and universities. Although it had some resemblance to an academic journal,

Scrutiny

disdained purely historical scholarship, and adopted a minoritarian position closer to that of a “little magazine” of critical valuation. While identifying itself with Cambridge, in conscious antagonism to literary London and Oxford, it was an unofficial…

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 May 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=990, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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