Literature in English

To find contemporary book reviews:

1. Go to Start Your Search or other humanities and newspaper databases.
2. As a keyword search, enter the name of the author and, if applicable, the title of the novel.
3. Narrow your results to the date of the book’s publication + a few years forward
4. Narrow your results to “Reviews” or “Book Reviews" OR narrow your results to newspapers and magazines.

Example:
To find reviews of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse:

1. Search for: “Virginia Woolf” AND “To the Lighthouse”
2. Narrow to date range: 1927-1937
3. Narrow results to “Reviews”.
   1. To evaluate more resource, remove "Reviews" limit and narrow to "Magazines" instead.

Try adding these keywords to your search:

• "contemporary reviews"
• "reception history"
• reception
• "critical edition"
• "treatment in criticism"
• "treatment in book review"