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RESEARCH GUIDES

French Language & Literature

This is a guide to selected print and electronic sources in French Language and Literature.

Electronic Reference Sources

Selected electronic reference sources; more are accessible under the Reference subject category in Database Finder. Individual electronic reference titles are also included in the main catalog.

Gale Literature Criticism
Electronic version of 12 titles in Gale's popular Literature Criticism reference series, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Drama Criticism.

Print sources

A selection of some useful reference sources - there are many more available in McKeldin Library.

The feminist encyclopedia of French literature by Sartori, Eva Martin
Call Number: Stacks PQ149.F47 1999

An alphabetically-arranged volume provides in-depth information on French women writers and their world. Entries include a summary of Feminist thought on authors, genres and literary movements, plus bibliographical information.
Dictionnaire littéraire des femmes de langue française : de Marie de France à Marie NDiaye by Makward, Christiane P.
Call Number: Stacks PQ149.M27 1996
Dictionnaire des lettres françaises by Grente, Georges
Call Number: McKeldin Library Folio PQ41.D53
Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française by Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de
Call Number: Reference Stacks PQ41.B4 1987
Dictionary of modern French literature: from the age of reason through realism by Dolbow, Sandra W.
Call Number: Stacks PQ41.D65 1986
Guide to French poetry explication by Coleman, Kathleen
Call Number: Reference Stacks PQ401.C65 1993
Guide to French Literature. 1789 to present by Levi, Anthony
Call Number: Reference Stacks PQ41.L48 1992
A guide to French literature : early modern to postmodern by Birkett, Jennifer
Call Number: Stacks PQ305.B524 1997
The new Oxford companion to literature in French by France, Peter
Call Number: Reference Stacks PQ41.N48 1995
French language and literature: an annotated bibliography by Bassan, Fernande
Call Number: Reference Stacks PC2071.B36 1989