Research Guides: French Language and Literature Research Guide: Getting Started

Reference Materials

The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
An alphabetical guide to authors, works, periods, and concepts in French and Francophone literature.

Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature
Publication Date: 1999
An alphabetically-arranged dictionary with appendices listing authors by subject and chronological period. Also available in print: PQ149.F7 Ref

Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics This link opens in a new window
Edited collections providing scholarly introductions to major topics in the study of individual authors and movements.

Dictionary of Literary Biography -- The hundreds of volumes in this series give overviews of the careers of writers from all eras and genres, including journalists and screenwriters. Each entry has bibliographies of the author's works and of secondary literature, and gives the whereabouts of the author's papers. To find the volume(s) with material on a particular author, search for "Dictionary of Literary Biography" in the library's catalog, and keyword "author's name." Cumulative indices for the entire series are found at the front and back of each volume and here.

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