Tip:

Remember that searching the catalog for book sources may require you to search more broadly.  Combine your search for the author whose work(s) you're researching with the term "criticism" or "interpretation."  (You can also search the title of a specific work--see Example 3.)  Doing so will bring up books and other items about the author's work(s) rather than the works themselves (such as the plays of Shakespeare):

Example 1:  Thoreau AND criticism,
Example 2:  Thoreau AND interpretation
Example 3:  Civil Disobedience AND interpretation (or you can use the term criticism here as well)
 

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Tip:

When searching eBooks on EBSCOhost, you can be much more specific in your search and use several keywords at a time since it searches every word of every single e-book in the thousands in its collection.  For example, you may want to search for the author's name, the title of a specific work, and the term "criticism" or "interpretation" to make sure you're getting e-books about the works, not the works themselves:

Example 1:  Thoreau AND Civil Disobedience AND Criticism
Example 2:  Phillis Wheatley AND Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral AND Interpretation
 

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Tip:

When searching Ebook Central, you can be much more specific in your search and use several keywords at a time since it searches every word of every single e-book in the thousands in its collection.  For example, you may want to search for the author's name, the title of a specific work, and the term "criticism" or "interpretation" to make sure you're getting e-books about the works, not the works themselves:

Example 1:  Thoreau AND Walden AND Criticism
Example 2:  Thoreau AND Civil Disobedience AND Interpretation
 

(For access to e-books from off campus, log in with your Barton username and password.)