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• Books -- Evaluation
• Criticism

• Books -- Reviews

• Book reviewing -- History

• Reviewing of books

• Book-Reviews (New York: New York Public Library, 1917), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

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• It Goes On the Shelf, ed. by Cuyler W. Brooks (full serial archives)

• Book Review Digest (partial serial archives)
• Booklist (partial serial archives)
• Technical Book Review Index (Special Libraries Association, 1935-1988) (partial serial archives)
• Deutsche Literaturzeitung für Kritik der internationalen Wissenschaft (in German) (partial serial archives)
• The United States Quarterly Book Review (partial serial archives)
• The English Review (1844-1853) (full serial archives)
• The Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review (full serial archives)
• The Foreign Quarterly Review (full serial archives)
• The General Magazine and Impartial Review (London, 1787-1792) (full serial archives)
• The Monthly Review (London, 1749-1845) (partial serial archives)
• The New Quarterly Review (1844-1847) (partial serial archives)
• The Times Literary Supplement (partial serial archives)
• The United States Quarterly Book List (full serial archives)
• The Bookman (London, 1891-1934) (partial serial archives)
• The Critic (New York-based magazine) (full serial archives)
• The Director (1807) (full serial archives)
• The Dolphin (American Catholic review, 1901-1905) (full serial archives)
• The Eclectic Review (London, 1805-1868) (full serial archives)
• Electronic Book Review (partial serial archives)
• The Foreign Review and Continental Miscellany (1828-1830) (full serial archives)
• Good Reading About Many Books, Mostly by Their Authors (partial serial archives)
• The Bookman (New York, 1895-1933) (partial serial archives)
• The Saturday Review of Literature (partial serial archives)
• The Literary Digest International Book Review (full serial archives)
• The American Review, and Literary Journal (partial serial archives)
• Book Notes (New York: Siegel-Cooper, 1898-1900) (partial serial archives)
• The Book Buyer (partial serial archives)
• CM: Canadian Review of Materials (full serial archives)

• The Monthly Magazine, and American Review (full serial archives)

• Electronic Book Review (partial serial archives)

• The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (full serial archives)
• The Antijacobin Review and True Churchman's Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Books Reviewed (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1922), by John Collings Squire
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Hayden V. White (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Institution of Theory (originally published 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Play and Place of Criticism (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Framing Theory's Empire (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, c2007), ed. by John Holbo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Marxism and Deconstruction: A Critical Articulation (originally published 1982; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Michael Ryan (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Poetic Presence and Illusion: Essays in Critical History and Theory (originally published 1979; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tar for Mortar: The Library of Babel and the Dream of Totality (Earth: BABEL Working Group, c2018), by Jonathan Basile
  • PDF with commentary at punctumbooks.com
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Martin Paul Eve (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Molly Wallace
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• The Institution of Criticism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Legacies of Paul de Man (2005), ed. by Marc Redfield (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), by Kenneth Burke, ed. by William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Critical Approaches to Literature (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1956), by David Daiches (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the "Creative Industries" (London: MayFlyBooks, 2011), ed. by Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, and Ulf Wuggenig (PDF and HTML with commentary at MayFlyBooks)
• Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, c2011), ed. by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (PDF at parlormultimedia.com)
• The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue, by Henry Hazlitt (PDF at mises.org)
• The Critical Attitude (London: Duckworth and Co., 1911), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century, With Introduction and Notes (New York et al.: C. Scribner's Sons, c1921), ed. by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Critical I, by Norman N. Holland (HTML at ufl.edu)
• Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Essays Literary and Critical, by Matthew Arnold (DjVu at archive.org)
• The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, by Matthew Arnold (HTML at Toronto)
• The New Criticism: A Lecture Delivered at Columbia University, March 9, 1910 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1911), by Joel Elias Spingarn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920 edition), by T. S. Eliot (HTML at Bartleby)
• Culture and Cognition: The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Ronald Schleifer, Robert Con Davis, and Nancy Mergler (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Hieroglyphics (London: Grant Richards, 1902), by Arthur Machen (page images at Google; US access only)
• Literary Criticism From the Elizabethan Dramatists: Repertory and Synthesis (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by David Klein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Stage and its Critics (1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (Gutenberg text)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Henry Seidel Canby
  • multiple formats at archhive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century (London: Oxford University Press, H. Miford, c1916), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (Gutenberg text)
• The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (main text only; some peripheral sections omitted), by John Dennis (HTML at Toronto)

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