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Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition
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Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de. Dictionnaire des litteratures de langue française.
Biographie universelle (Michaud) ancienne et moderne.
Commonly referred to as Michaud. An international biographical dictionary; a good source for information on many obscure people.
Bonnefoy, Claude. Dictionnaire de littérature française contemporaine.
Mainly one-page long biographies of nearly 200 twentieth-century authors followed by a description of some current literary periodicals. Includes portraits.
Dictionnaire de biographie française. (In progress)
The French national biographical dictionary with articles written and signed by specialists and accompanied by bibliographies.
Dictionary of Literary Biography. (In progress)
The following volumes cover French literature:
L’ÎLE: l'Infocentre littéraire des écrivains québécois
Provides biographies and bibliographies to over 1 000 québécois writers, and 360 dossiers de presse.
Covers world literatures in English. Covers authors, philosophers, works, and topics/events.
Provides brief biographies and some idea about the content of the authors' works.
Ardagh, John. Cultural Atlas of France..
Dictionnaire d'histoire culturelle de la France contemporaine.
Encyclopédies et données de type encyclopédique (Trésor de la langue française au Québec)
Amon, Evelyne. Grandes oeuvres de la littérature française.
Provides brief resumes and outline analyses for 130 major works of French literature, covering all genres from the Middle Ages to the present. Arranged alphabetically by title.
Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de. Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française.
Covers French literature from 9th century to the present, with signed articles. Includes foreign French-language literatures. Features very comprehensive entries on major authors. Indexes include illustrations, titles, literary terms, Academy members, and literary prize winners.
Chaulet-Achour, Christiane. Dictionnaire des écrivains francophones classiques: Afrique subsaharienne, Caraïbe, Maghreb, Machrek, Océan Indien.
Corcoran, Patrick. The Cambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature.
Dictionnaire de la littérature française et francophone.
Covers French-language authors, works, literary movements, periodicals, etc.
Dictionnaire de la littérature française, XXe siècle.
Provides signed biographical essays focusing on the authors' work and influence. Includes Francophone authors.
Dictionnaire des grandes oeuvres de la littérature française.
Provides selective coverage to works published from the Middle Ages to twentieth century. Arranged by title, includes brief summaries, analyses, reviews of critical reception, and short primary and secondary bibliographies.
Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. (In progress)
This multi-volume set is arranged chronologically.
Dictionnaire des oeuvres du XXe siècle: Littérature française et francophone.
Contains entries for French-language literary works and literary journals, supplemented by overview articles on movements, trends, genres, etc. Strictly twentieth century publications are considered. Includes cultural and political chronologies and author and title indexes.
Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la littérature française.
Also referred to as "Laffont-Bompiani." Coverage extends from Middle Ages to the twentieth century and includes authors writing in French, most important works of the French literature, and terms related to the field of French literature.
Dolbow, Sandra W. Dictionary of Modern French Literature: From the Age of Reason through Realism.
Coverage begins in 1715 and concludes in 1880. Offers critical appraisal of major works and literary/philosophical movements and terms. Bibliographies consist mainly of books and articles published in English, 1980-1985.
An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers.
An international guide. Provides biographical and critical articles; accompanied by primary and secondary bibliographies. Coverage extends from the medieval times to the 20th century.
Encyclopédie de la littérature.
A Who's Who of world literature. Coverage from antiquity to the present.
The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature.
Provides information about women writers and the world in which they lived. Limited to women living and working mainly in France.
French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book.
Covers lives and works of the most important women writers in the history of French literature. Features long, signed articles. Includes primary and secondary bibliographies.
Frickx, Robert. Lettres françaises de Belgique: Dictionnaire des oeuvres.
Jourdain, Gabriel. Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française.
Lemaitre, Henri. La Littérature française.
Enhanced by numerous portraits and illustrations.
Lemaitre, Henri. Dictionnaire Bordas de littérature française.
Covers French and Francophone literatures from the beginning to the present. Lists authors, anonymous works, and literary terms. Includes chiefly primary bibliographies, index of works, and index of terms.
Littérature: textes et documents. (Collection Henri Mitterand)
Makward, Christiane P. Dictionnaire littéraire des femmes de langue française de Marie de France a Marie NDiaye.
A bio-bibliographical source covering many centuries and French as well as francophone authors.
This international guide presents criticism of women writers living in the 20th century.
The New Oxford companion to literature in French
Lists entries under writer, title, places and themes for both French and Francophone authors.
Nicollier, Alain. Dictionnaire des écrivains suisses d'expression française.
Covers Middle Ages to the present. Provides brief biographical sketches with basic primary and secondary bibliographies.
Le Robert des grands écrivains de langue française
Features 150 authors chosen as representatives of the Francophone literatures. Focuses on their work and influence.
Vercier, Bruno. La Littérature en France depuis 1968.
Encyclopédies de poche (CAIRN)
Pierre Bayle, Dictionnaire historique et critique (5th Edition, 1740) (ARTFL)
Louis Moréri, Le Grand dictionnaire historique, ou le Mélange curieux de l'Histoire sacrée et profane, etc. (1759) (ARTFL)
Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord (BAnQ)
Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires du Québec des origines à 1939 (BAnQ)
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
A guide to critical theory. Particularly relevant to literature and linguistic studies.
L’ÎLE: l'Infocentre littéraire des écrivains québécois
Provides biographies and bibliographies to over 1 000 québécois writers, and 360 dossiers de presse.
Covers world literatures in English. Entries include authors, philosophers, works, and topics/events. (In progress)
Provides brief biographies and some idea about the content of the authors' works.
Dictionnaires d'autrefois: French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries (ARTFL)
Simultaneous search of Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue française (1606), Jean-François Féraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française (1787-1788), Émile Littré's Dictionnaire de la langue française (1872-1877) and the Dictionnaire de L'Académie française 1st (1694), 4th (1762), 5th (1798), 6th (1835), and 8th (1932-5) editions.
Armand, Anne. Histoire de la littérature française. Moyen Âge, XVIe
Bibliographie de la littérature française (XVIe-XXe siècles)
Corcoran, Patrick. The Cambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature.
Coward, David. A History of French Literature: From Chanson de geste to Cinema.
Includes genres and works generally placed outside of the traditional literary canon.
Histoire de la France littéraire.
Coverage includes history, and French society and intellectual life.
Levi, Anthony. Guide to French Literature: Beginnings to 1789.
Includes long, scholarly essays, most of them on writers. Provides detailed biographical and evaluative information, accompanied by primary and secondary bibliographies.
Levi, Anthony. Guide to French Literature: 1789 to the Present.
Includes long, scholarly essays, most of them on writers. Provides detailed biographical and evaluative information, accompanied by primary and secondary bibliographies.
Littérature: textes et documents. Moyen Age, XVIe siècle. (Mitterand)
Littérature: textes et documents. XVIIe siècle. (Mitterand)
Littérature: textes et documents. XVIIIe siècle. (Mitterand)
Littérature: textes et documents. XIXe siècle. (Mitterand)
Littérature: textes et documents, XXe siècle. (Mitterand)
Maulpoix, Jean-Michel. Histoire de la littérature française. XXe, 1950-1990.
New Oxford Companion to Literature in French.
Coverage extends to French literature from outside France. Signed entries include authors, titles, critics, critical theory, women's writing, places, literary terms, and genres, etc. Short author bibliographies of major works are included.
Covers world literatures in English. Provides "profiles of authors and texts, and basic knowledge on their cultural contexts." Includes major philosophers and philosophies.
The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
See: Part five - Writing in French
Repertory of literary terms.
Tamine-Gardes, Joëlle. Dictionnaire de critique littéraire
Zima, P. V. Critique littéraire et esthétique: les fondements esthétiques des théories de la littérature
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
A guide to critical theory. Particularly relevant to literature and linguistic studies
Les Autochtones ne sont pas des pandas : histoire, autochtonie et citoyenneté québecoise
Dictionnaire historique des Canadiens et des Métis français de l'Ouest
La renaissance du théâtre autochtone : métamorphose des Amériques
Métis history and experience and residential schools in Canada
AMICUS: Canadian National Catalogue
A catalogue listing the holdings of libraries across Canada. As a national catalogue, AMICUS not only shows the published materials held at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) but also those located in over 1300 libraries across Canada. AMICUS contains over 30 million records for books, magazines, newspapers, government documents, theses, sound recordings, maps, electronic texts as well as items in braille and large print.
Bibliographie du Québec (January 2003- )
Lists all documents published in Québec during the current year and the previous year, and acquired by legal deposit or purchased. Included are documents published abroad but related to Québec by author or subject. In addition, users may consult the Livres québécois à paraître et nouveautés database.
Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec
The BAnQ acquires, by legal deposit, all new documents published in Québec: books, journals, magazines, newspapers, cartographic documents, artists' books, music scores, prints, posters, art reproductions, postcards, sound recordings, software and microforms (microfiches and microfilms). Its holdings include also retrospective purchases, which helped to develop a nearly exhaustive collection of Québec's documentary heritage as well as large holdings of foreign publications about Québec.
Library of Congress Online Catalog
Includes records of foreign publications.
Biblio; catalogue des ouvrages parus en langue française dans le monde entier.
Library has: 1942-1970.
Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au seizième siècle.
Bergez, Daniel. Introduction aux méthodes critiques pour l’analyse littéraire.
Chevrel, Yves. L’étudiant, chercheur en littérature: guide pratique.
Gagnon, Maryse. Guide de la recherche documentaire.
Bassan, Fernande. French Language and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography.
Covers General Bibliographies and Reference Works, General Studies on the French Language, and Bibliographies and Studies of Literature. Further subdivision is by literary period and by geographic area outside of France.
Beugnot, Bernard. Manuel bibliographique des études littéraires: les bases de l'histoire littéraire, les voies nouvelles de l'analyse critique.
The citations within each section are ordered chronologically to reflect the development of research surrounding a given topic. Includes basic research tools (bibliographies and periodicals), resources concerned with aspects of literary study (history, genres, themes), and Francophone literature and new literary frontiers.
Bibliographie de la littérature française moderne (XVIe-XXe siècles) (Rancoeur)
For period 1981-1985 published as part of each issue of the Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France.
For period 1986 onwards constitutes issue no.3 of the of the Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France.
A Critical Bibliography of French Literature. (Cabeen)
An important, selective, evaluative, and annotated bibliography compiled by specialists. Arranged chronologically by period. Lists books, dissertations, and periodical articles, with reference to reviews.
Lanson, Gustave. Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française moderne; XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe, et XIXe siècles.
While it includes 23,000 authors, it is selective and not complete. It indexes a considerable amount of analytical material including articles from more than 800 periodicals. The bibliography is supplemented by: Giraud, Jeanne. Manuel de bibliographie littéraire pour les XVIe, XVIIe, et XVIIIe siècles français, 1921-1935, 1958. (Ref Z2173.G52 Porter) and: Giraud, Jeanne. Manuel de bibliographie littéraire pour les XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles français, 1936-1945, 1956. (Ref Z2173.G522 Porter).
Bibliographie de la littérature française du Moyen Age à nos jours.
An annual; Library has: 1966-1980. Since 1981, continued in the Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France.
Bossuat, Robert. Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française du Moyen Age. Supplement (1949-1953).
Ref Z2172.B7 Porter.
Vielliard, Francoise. Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française du Moyen Âge de Robert Bossuat. Troisième supplément, 1960-1980.
Arbour, Romeo. L'ère baroque en France: répertoire chronologique des éditions de textes littéraires.
Cioranescu, Alexandre. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-septième siècle.
Cioranescu, Alexandre. Bibliographie de la littérature française du seizième siècle.
Cioranescu, Alexandre. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle.
Conlon, Pierre M. Le siècle des lumières: bibliographie chronologique.
Talvart, Hector. Bibliographie des auteurs modernes de langue française.
Library has: 1928 to 1976. An invaluable bibliography of nineteenth and twentieth-century French literature. Arranged alphabetically, it usually gives a short biography, a list of the author's work, including minor publications.
Thième, Hugo Paul. Bibliographie de la littérature française de 1800 a 1930.
Dreher, S. Bibliographie de la littérature française, 1930-1939: complément à la bibliographie de H. P. Thieme.