Subject & Course Guides: FREN 720: Introduction to Graduate Studies in French: Reference Sources

Online Dictionaries & Other e-Reference Sources

ARTFL-FRANTEXT This link opens in a new window Consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
Cambridge Histories This link opens in a new window Contains over 250 volumes published since 1960, equating to around 196,000 pages of scholarship on 15 different academic subjects.
Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism This link opens in a new window A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism.
Klapp-Online, Bibliography of French Literature Klapp-Online is a comprehensive and authoritative bibliography of all periods of French literature from medieval through contemporary. It contains a database covering the years from 1991 to the present. The 1956-1990 years have been retrodigitized and made accessible in the form of a searchable PDF file.
Literary Encyclopedia The Literary Encyclopedia is an online reference work that provides authoritative articles about literary and cultural history. Coverage includes English-language, Classical, German, French and Francophone, Hispanic, Italian, Russian, East European, and other world literatures. Over 7800 articles are included, with 20-40 new articles currently being added each month.
Literary Reference Source This link opens in a new window Provides a broad spectrum of full-text information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Includes plot summaries, synopses, articles, author biographies, books reviews, poems, short stories and more.
Literature online This link opens in a new window Provides searchable full-text of more than 350,000 literary works in the English language--poetry, drama, and prose; 175 full-text literary journals; the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature; and reference sources including American Poetry and other bibliographies, biographies, and dictionaries. Individual units run from Anglo-Saxon literature, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the 18th and 19th centuries right up to the late 20th Century. LION also offers comprehensive cross-searching of EEBO - Early English Books Online.
Oxford reference This link opens in a new window Cross-searchable online database of Oxford University Press subject dictionaries and reference works. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias.

The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies (YWMLS)L

Dictionnaires d'autrefois (Old French)

Dictionnaires d'autrefois are located in the ARTFL-FRANTEXT database:

Jean Nicot, Thresor de la langue françoyse, tant ancienne que moderne
Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue françoyse is the key to the development of French lexicography.
Jean-François Féraud, Dictionaire critique de la langue française
Jean-François Féraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française (1787-1788) is far from a mere general dictionary.
Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française
The Académie française was founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635 with the primary goal of creating a French dictionary.
Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française
Émile Littré's literary dictionary of classical French (1872-1877) is incorporated into the Dictionnaires d'autrefois Collection.

Biographies

Gale literature resource center This link opens in a new window
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of the most-studied authors.

Reference Sources

Databases have largely replaced printed bibliographies, but the following titles are still important. Print bibliographies are especially useful for single-author studies and similar focused topics. To find bibliographies in the library catalog, you can search by "Subject Heading" under:

French literature - Bibliography - Periodicals
French literature - History and criticism - Bibliography
French literature - 20th century - Bibliography
Renaissance - Bibliography - Periodicals

Bibliographies

Bassan, Fernande. An annotated bibliography of French language and literature. Z2175.A2 B38 1976 (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks)

Besterman, Theodore. A world bibliography of bibliographies and bibliographical catalogues, calendars, abstracts, digests, indexes, and the like. 4th edition. 5 vols. Z1002 .B5685 1982 (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks)

Cabeen, David. A critical bibliography of French literature. Z2171 .C5 (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks)

Cioranescu, Alexandre. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-septième siècle. Z2172 .C52 v. 1-3 (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks)

Cioranescu, Alexandre. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle. Z2172 .C48 v. 1-3 (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks)

Kempton, Richard. French literature: an annotated guide to selected bibliographies. Z2171 .A1 C34 1981 (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks)

Klapp, Otto. Bibliographie der franzosischen Literaturwissenschaft. Z2171 .K55 (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks) **This resource is also available online in the Databases A-Z listed under Klapp-Online, Bibliography of French Literature

French XX Bibliography. (French Institute) Z2173 .M6 (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks)

Bibliographie internationale de l’Humanisme et de la Renaissance. Z6207 .R4 B5 (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks)

Place, Joseph and Place, Georges G. Bibliographie des auteurs modernes de langue française. Z2173 .T3 v.1-22 (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks)

Rancoeur, René. Bibliographie de la littérature française du Moyen Age à nos jours. Z2171 .R3X (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks)

Rancoeur, René. Bibliographie de la littérature franc̜aise moderne (16.-20. siècles). Z2171 .R3X (Watson Library 2 1/2 Center Stacks)

The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. Print PB1 .Y45 (Watson Library 2 West Stacks)

Guides & Dictionaries

Grand dictionnaire encyclopédique Larousse. AE25 .G63 1982 (Watson Library 1 East Stacks)

Levi, Anthony. Guide to French Literature, 2 vols. PQ226 .L48 1992 (Watson Library 3 West Stacks)

Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de. Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française. PQ41 .B412 2001 (Watson Library Reference Collection - 3rd floor near service desk)

Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de. Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française. PQ41 .B4 1994 v. 1-4 folio (Watson Library 1 1/2 East Stacks)

Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de. Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de langue française. PQ41 .B42 1994 folio (Watson Library 1 1/2 East Stacks)

Imbs, Paul. Trésor de la langue française; dictionnaire de la langue du XIXe et de XXe siècle (1789-1960). PC2625 .I4 v. 1-16 (Watson Library Reference Collection - 3rd floor near service desk)

Littré, Emile. Dictionnaire de la langue française. PC2625 .L63 v. 1-7 (Watson Library Reference Collection - 3rd floor near service desk)

Reference E-Books

Cambridge Companions This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Companions searches across the Companions for Literature and Classics; Philosophy, Religion, and Culture; and Music.