Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Literatures in English:
Book Review Sources
Use to track down initial critical responses to literary texts or to
gauge the reception of critical texts.
Book Review Digest. (1906+).
Includes citations and brief excerpts of reviews; covers relatively few journals, mostly non-scholarly (e.g. New Yorker)
ALEXANDER REF AI 3.B64.
Book Review Index. (1965+).
Includes more reviews than BRD, but omits the excerpts
ALEXANDER REF AI 3.B642.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974.
Best for tracking down reviews of older critical works, though some literary texts are included.
ALEXANDER REF Z 1035.A1C64.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974.
Similar to the preceding title, though with a greater time span and a focus on humanities journals
ALEXANDER REF Z 1035.A1C62.
Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities. (1960-91).
An older annual, with some value for the period covered.
ALEXANDER Z 1219.I5.
Literary Reviews in British Periodicals, 1798-1820: A Bibliography.
2 volumes.
A great aid to research. Find early reviews of Austen, Edgeworth, Mary Shelley, and Scott, among others. See also the following volumes:
ALEXANDER REF Z 2013.W36.
Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774.
ALEXANDER REF Z 1035.A1F67 1990.
Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800.
ALEXANDER REF Z 1035.A1F67 1997.
Periodicals Index Online
The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers.
9 volumes. A handy collection of reviews of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats,
Shelley and more.
ALEXANDER PR590.R43.
