Reviews

The Art of Literary Research by Richard D. Altick, John J. Fenstermaker

larobertson's review against another edition

4.0

An interesting window into literary research just before the digital revolution. It continues to offer solid research principles. It also offers the productive problem of thinking through how a contemporary literary scholar might build a research problem from the ground up and conduct thorough research with the tools at her disposal today.

shanaetheflyest's review against another edition

4.0

Those this book is quite antiquated, I think the information it provides about doing in-depth research to acquire the most accurate information when taking on the challenge of assessing any text is essential to all English majors and academic writers. I learned quite a bit from Altick and am anxious to put it to good use later this year when I begin writing heavily researched essays.