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The following guide is intended to provide an overview of some of the resources available in the library and online for French Literature. For further research assistance, please take advantage of the reference services available to you in the Geisel Library. Stop by the Reference Desk in person or online at Ask a Librarian.
The reference librarians have created a group of Web pages named Research Help, and a tutorial called Searchpath, designed to help teach you the basics of library research and to introduce you to Geisel Library. On the Research Help pages, you will find a guide on Research Basics and a helpful guide about evaluating your Web sources, Judging What You Find. Please take advantage of these resources.
ARTFL Project
A collection of French-language texts "ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts." Also included is "a Provençal database that includes 38 texts in their original spellings. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy." Also includes French and English dictionaries as well as a searchable version of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie.
Oxford Reference Online
Contains electronic versions of foreign language dictionaries, commonly used Oxford dictionaries, encyclopedias and subject reference works.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of French Literature
Edited by Joyce M. H. Reid
Ref PQ41 .C6 1976
A Critical Bibliography of French Literature v. 1 The Medieval period
edited by U.T. Holmes
Ref PQ103 .C74 v.1
Dictionnaire des Lettres Françaises
Publié sous la direction de Georges Grente [et al.]
Ref PQ41 .D53
Dictionnaire des Littératures de Langue Française
Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty, Alain Rey
Ref PQ41 .B4 1994 v.1-4
Dictionnaire des Oeuvres et des Thèmes de la Littérature Française
Michel Bouty
Ref PQ41 .B68 1990
Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Littéraires de Langue Française
Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty
Ref PQ41 .B42 1994 v.1-4
Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature
Robert Thomas Lambdin
Ref PN669 .E53 2000
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
edited by Andre Vauchez
Ref D114 .E53 2000
European Writers
William T.H. Jackson, editor, George Stade, editor in chief
Ref PN501 .E9 v.1-2
v. 1-2. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Prudentius to medieval drama
Petrarch to Renaissance short fiction
French Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Source Book
edited by Eva Martin Sartori and Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman
Ref PQ149 .F73 1991
Guide de la Littérature Française du Moyen Age
Louis Kukenheim
PQ151 .K8 (On Reserve)
International Medieval Bibliography
Ref D118 .I57
Literature Resource Center
This database combines three literary databases for biographical information, bibliographic listings of authors' works, plot summaries, and literary criticism for 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers. This resource also provides the full text of articles from more than 100 literary journals and has links to author's official web sites.
Littérature Française, par Antoine Adam. Georges Lerminier, Edouard Morot-Sir
Antoine Adam
PQ101 .A3 1972 (On Reserve)
Medieval France: An Encyclopedia
William W. Kibler
DC33.2 M44 1995 (On Reserve)
A New History of French Literature
edited by Denis Hollier with R. Howard Bloch...[et al.]
Ref PQ119.N48 1989
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
edited by Peter France
Ref PQ41 .N49 1995
La Renaissance
Raoul Morcay
PQ101 .H47 (On Reserve)
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Sample subject headings to consider when searching the library catalog or Worldcat:
Poetry, Medieval – History and criticism
French poetry – to 1500 – Bibliography
French poetry – History and criticism
French poetry – 16th century
Marot, Clement, 1495?-1544
Du Bellay, Joachim, 1525 (ca.) -1560
Ronsard, Pierre de, 1524-1585
Aubigne, Agrippa d', 1552-1630
Regnier, Mathurin, 1573-1613
MLA International Bibliography
Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, this electronic index consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. (1963 - present) Journal List User Guide
JSTOR
Search here for full-text articles from major journals in the humanities and social sciences, including Eighteenth-Century Studies, French Historical Studies, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Yale French Studies. Coverage is generally from the beginning of publication to within 5 years of the current issue. Journal list for: Arts & Sciences I Arts & Sciences II
Project MUSE
This database offers full-text articles from over 300 peer-reviewed journals, including Eighteenth-Century Life, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and French Forum. (See Journal List for dates of coverage.)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHSearch)
This index provides citations to more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals, which include articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, and reviews. Note the cited references feature, which may enhance your search. (1980-current)
ATLA Religion Database
ATLA Religion Database provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. This database is the definitive index for religious and theological literature. ATLA Religion Database contains more than 1.4 million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in over 60 languages.
Historical Abstracts
This index provides abstracts to key history journals from around the globe, covering world history from 1450 to the present. Historical Abstracts includes citations from books, dissertations, and a targeted selection of journals in the social sciences and humanities. (1954-current)
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
"Iter's bibliography covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for journal articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies are included. Also included are citations for monographs, and material published in monographs and collections of essays." Journal List
Philosopher's Index
The premier international resource in philosophy, this database contains over 160,000 citations with abstracts to journal articles as well as books. (1940–current) Journal List
Connect to ARTstor to access a half -million images and related text. These images can be printed for use in your paper, or included in PowerPoint demonstrations. Ask a Reference Librarian if you require assistance using ARTstor.
Websites that are helpful for finding images:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Timeline of Art History (France 1000 - 1400 AD)
DScriptorium: Digital Images of Medieval Manuscripts
Virtual Expositions of the BNF
Google Image Search
Lexique des Termes Litteraires
TV5 Monde
Offers dictionnaires, etc.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
For a complete introduction and extensive examples, refer to:
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Ready Ref LB2369 .G53 (at the Reference Desk)
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