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Book Reviews and Literary Criticism

For Reviews of Books published since 1990 try the following resources by entering the title of the book in your search:

Academic Search Premier
Expanded Academic
Lexis-Nexis

 

For Literary Criticism try these online and print sources:

M.L.A.(Modern Language Association) Bibliography
Literary Index
Literature Resource Center
LION(Literature Online)
Humanities Fulltext

The following print resources are large sets in the Reference Section and are the most comprehensive of all. Most are indexed online through Literary Index above:

CLC-Contemporary Literary Criticism(Author is still alive)- Ref PN771 .C59
NCLC-Nineteenth Century Lit Crit(Author died before 1900)- Ref PN761 .N5
TCLC -Twentieth Century Lit Crit (Author died before 2000)- Ref PN771 .G27
DLB(Dictionary of Literary Biography)- Ref PN451 .D52
Short Story Criticism- Ref PN3373 .S386
Poetry Criticism-
Ref PN1010 .P499
Drama Criticism
- Ref PN1601 .D59

For older reviews and more comprehensive criticism use the following online and print sources:
Book Review Digest
Book Review Digest indexes English-language fiction and non-fiction book reviews appearing in hundreds of journals and magazines, 1983 to present. Earlier volumes are available in print.
Literary Index is a master index to the 40 major literature series published by Gale, most of which are available in the library's reference collection. These series contain biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes access to the Scribner Writer's Series and Twayne World, Twayne US, and Twayne English Authors.
New York Times Historical Fulltext

Full text-full image of the New York Times 1851-2000.
Does not include most recent three years, but a year of coverage is added each year.

Printed Indexes Book Review Digest, 1906-1999
Book Review Index, 1965-present

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