10. Finding Reviews
These general sources will lead you to reviews of 20th century literary texts in scholarly journals and popular magazines. Film, play, and other reviews are included in Academic Search Premier, as well as in specialized resources available in print and digital forms. Newspapers are also a useful sources for locating reviews (see section 9.)There are many other sources, covering earlier centuries and other media, so theses are only a few points of departure.
Both of these guides offer additional sources and strategies for finding reviews.
Book Review Index, v. 1- Jan. 1965- Detroit,
Gale Research Co.
Lamont | REF.ROOM | Z1035.A1 B6
Widener | RR 675.3
Book Review Digest , 1906 Bronx, N.Y. : H.W.
Wilson Co.
Lamont | REF.ROOM | Z1219 .C96
Widener | RR675.2.5
Multi-disciplinary database that includes citations and abstracts from over 4,500 scholarly publications (journals, magazines and newspapers). Full text is available for more than 3,500 of the publications and is searchable. Dates: Indexing and full text availability varies with title. Most complete coverage begins in the 1990s. Useful for recent reviews.
The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive includes complete page images of the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), a leading book review periodical, from its inception in 1902 to 1990. Searchable by: book author, review author, book title, subject, date, issue; full text is not searchable. Subject search terms are drawn largely from the printed TLS cumulative indexes. Prior to 1974, the book reviews were published anonymously. This electronic version supplies contributor names.
CLC/Contemporary Literary Criticism
Excerpted criticism on works of selected novelists, poets, critics, dramatists, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after 1959. Each entry contains a short biography, critical introduction, and excerpts from essays and book reviews taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals, and, if available, interviews with the author. Coverage is mixed, so this is a starting place, rather than an exhaustive source.