By John Bishop

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She shows that an important achievement of female literary critics was that they variously helped to define Victorian Realism. They also made a compelling case for the novel as the genre of the age; and they detached ‘the discussion of morality from both doctrine and didacticism . . All addressed and defended their positions as public intellectuals . . They made gender itself a critical concept, theorizing about masculinity, femininity’. ii National developments in literary criticism The next series of chapters traces various national movements in criticism.

The policy of anonymity, which was practised by all the quarterly reviews, offered protection, so it was argued, to public and professional men who could voice their opinions on a range of subjects without fear of exposure or reprisal. They spoke with a collective voice, employing the corporate ‘we’, to which all in theory subscribed. Anonymity in turn afforded considerable powers to editors, whose task it was to establish the cultural authority of their reviews, and who could alter the work of their contributors with impunity.

Xiv–xv. org/core. org/core/terms. 003 24 Joanne Shattock Other mainly sectarian quarterlies were founded at mid-century: the North British (1844), initially the organ of the Free Church of Scotland; the nonconformist British Quarterly (1845); the High Church Christian Remembrancer (1845); the Methodist London Quarterly (1853); and the liberal Catholic Home and Foreign (1862). These were among the reviews whose sectarian affiliations Arnold was to deplore in his essay ‘The Function of Criticism at the Present Time’, published in 1864.

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