Library Guides: English Literature: Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Scholarly book reviews can be found using Academic Search Premier, Web of Science (the Arts & Humanities Citation Index section, 1975-present) , and ABELL. Popular or general book reviews can be found using Compass Search All, Academic Search Premier, and in historical newspapers such as the New York Times (Use the dropdown menu for the Databases by Type to "Newspapers (Historical)." The following are examples of reference resources focused on book reviews.

Book Review Index Online
A comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications.
Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
Provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction.
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive
The only literary journal to offer comprehensive coverage of the latest and most important publications, in every subject, in several languages as well as reviewing current, theatre, cinema, music and exhibitions.
Literature Criticism Online
Provides access to Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Drama Criticism.
American Periodicals
Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Nexis Uni
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
British Periodicals
Provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the mid twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
These 200 years of accounts are essential to the study of British history and culture at crucial periods in the nation’s development as a world power. With the East and West India Companies and its military strength, England was the center of trade, power and culture during this period. This collection gives new freshness and immediacy to historical events and reflects the cultural trends, political currents and social problems of the day.
Academic Search Complete
Designed for academic institutions, this database by Ebscohost provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary, full-text academic journals.

Literary Reviews in British Periodicals, 1798-1820
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Z2013.W36
Compiled by William S. Ward.
Literary Reviews in British Periodicals, 1821-1826
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PR453.W36 1977
Compiled by William S. Ward.
Index to book reviews in England, 1749-1774
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PR442.F67 1990
Compiled by Angela Forster.
Index to book reviews in England, 1775-1800
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PR442 .F675 1997
Compiled by Angela Forster.

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