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French Studies: Books

Books

Library catalogues

Print indexes

Book reviews

  • Book Review Digest

    • Coverage includes descriptive summaries, excerpts, and full text of book reviews of foreign language books. Library has: 1905 to present.

  • ChoiceReviews.online

    • Reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to higher education by subject experts. Library has: Sept. 1988-. Type: Review Database, Full Text

  • Factiva

    • Provides full text, same-day and archival coverage of over 9000 sources from 118 countries in 22 languages.
      Search by keywords to retrieve reviews. Library has: Varies with newspaper. In Library login with your WatIAM (Quest) User ID and Password. type: Newspaper Database, Full Text

  • JSTOR

    • Rich in book reviews, the database contains the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and other disciplines. Library has: Coverage varies by journal. Excludes the last 3-5 years (moving wall). type: Journal Database, Full Text

  • NexisUni

    • Provides same-day and archival coverage of news and legal sources from the world. Search by keywords to retrieve reviews. Library has: Varies by database. In Library login with your WatIAM (Quest) User ID and Password. type: Newspaper Database, Full Text.

  • Complete Review

    • Links to book review sites in French.

  • H-France Reviews

    • Source of scholarly reviews from 2001 onward.

  • H-Net Reviews

    • A scholarly review resource for Humanities and Social Sciences publications. Features a browsable and/or searchable online archive of reviews.

  • Lire.fr

    • A portal about authors, literature and timely issues.

Faculty monographs

Waterloo faculty monographs

Current

Collington, Tara

Dubeau, Catherine

Gauthier, Nicolas

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry

Lepage, Élise

Miraglia, Anne Marie

Nolette, Nicole

Poirier, Guy

Retired

Paré, François

Russell, Delbert

Ryan, Robert

Socken, Paul

French call number ranges

French call number ranges

  • D – History of Europe

    • DC – history of France

  • F – History of the Americas

    • F1001-1145.2 – history of Canada

    • F1170 – history of French America

  • P – Language and literature

    • P – philology and linguistics

    • PC – Romance languages

      • PC2001-3761 – French language

    • PQ – Romance literature

      • PQ1-3999 – French literature

    • PS – American literature

      • PS8001-8599 – Canadian literature (English and French)