Hanson, William. 1983. Review of Clifford Albrecht Bernd, German Poetic Realism, in Modern Language Review, 78.2, pp. 495–97, doi:10.2307/3729894

Hanson, William. 1983. Review of H. R. Klieneberger, The Novel in England and Germany, in Modern Language Review, 78.4, pp. 984–85, doi:10.2307/3729576

Hanson, William. 1983. Review of Hans-Werner Peter, Wilhelm Raabe: Werke in Auswahl. Studienausgabe, in Modern Language Review, 78.4, p. 985, doi:10.2307/3729577

Hanson, William. 1984. Review of Hans Rudolf Vaget, Goethe: Der Mann von 60 Jahren. Mit einem Anhang über Thomas Mann, in Modern Language Review, 79.2, pp. 491–92, doi:10.2307/3730096

Hanson, William. 1985. Review of Barker Fairley, Rodney Symington, Selected Essays on German Literature, in Modern Language Review, 80.3, p. 752, doi:10.2307/3729348

Hanson, William. 1985. ‘Raabe's Poems’, in Modern Language Review, 80.4, pp. 858–70, doi:10.2307/3728961

Hanson, William. 1987. Review of J. P. Stern, J. J. White, Paths and Labyrinths: Nine Papers Read at the Franz Kafka Symposium Held at the Institute of Germanic Studies on 20 and 21 October 1983, in Modern Language Review, 82.2, pp. 521–22, doi:10.2307/3728514

Hanson, William. 1988. Review of Noel L. Thomas, Grass: 'Die Blechtrommel'; John Hibberd, Kafka: 'Die Verwandlung', in Modern Language Review, 83.3, pp. 801–02, doi:10.2307/3731406

Hanson, William. 1989. Review of Horst Denkler, Neues über Wilhelm Raabe: Zehn Annäherungsversuche an einen verkannten Schriftsteller, in Modern Language Review, 84.4, pp. 1034–35, doi:10.2307/3731261

Hanson, William. 1991. Review of Horst Denkler, Wilhelm Raabe. Legende: Leben: Literatur, in Modern Language Review, 86.2, pp. 520–21, doi:10.2307/3730649

Hanson, William. 1994. Review of Jeffrey L. Sammons, The Shifting Fortunes of Wilhelm Raabe: A History of Criticism as a Cautionary Tale, in Modern Language Review, 89.1, pp. 253–55, doi:10.2307/3733229

Hanson, William. 1995. Review of Josef Daum, Hans-Jürgen Schrader, Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft, 1992, in Modern Language Review, 90.2, p. 511, doi:10.2307/3734653

Hanson, William. 1995. Review of Deirdre Vincent, Werther's Goethe and the Game of Literary Creativity, in Modern Language Review, 90.3, pp. 799–800, doi:10.2307/3734397

Hanson, William. 1996. Review of Reinhard K. Zachau, Heinrich Böll: Forty Years of Criticism, in Modern Language Review, 91.3, pp. 802–03, doi:10.2307/3734188

Hanson, William. 1997. Review of Michael Butler, The Narrative Fiction of Heinrich Böll: Social Conscience and Literary Achievement, in Modern Language Review, 92.3, pp. 808–09, doi:10.2307/3733501

Hanson, William. 1998. Review of Helmuth Mojem, Der zitierte Held: Studien zur Intertextualität in Wilhelm Raabes Roman 'Das Odfeld', in Modern Language Review, 93.2, pp. 577–78, doi:10.2307/3735468