French 275: Sex, Politics, and Philosophy: Revolutions in French Literature, 1721-1834
Ask us 
Tommy Nixon
Humanities Reference Librarian
Davis Library
tommy_nixon@unc.edu
Davis Reference Desk
(919)962-1151
AIM: DavisRefDesk
Davis Chat
IM us 
More help 
Introduction to Library Research
Citing 
L.C. Call Nos.
This Library of Congress classification system holds true for any library in the world using the LC system. For example, French language dictionaries will be classed between PC2001-PC3761; French literature will be in the call number range PQ1-PQ3999; and French history will be classed in the DCs, within the broader class of European history.
Map of Davis Reference
Use this Map to find books in Davis Reference.
Call No. Locations in Davis
Use this Location Guide to find books in Davis.
How Do I?...
How Do I? Cite Sources? Conduct a Literature Review, etc.?
Writing Center Help
Get Help Writing a Paper, etc.Carolina BLU Campus Delivery Service 
Through the Carolina BLU Delivery Service, you can request to have books and articles available at any of the UNC-CH campus libraries, as well as books and articles requested through interlibrary loan, delivered to the campus library most convenient to you.
Google Scholar
Primary Texts
ARTFL Project
A major database of searchable French texts, plus other specialized searchable text databases. The majority of texts for this course are searchable in ARTFL.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature (Western European Studies Section, ACRL)
Academic Databases 
Example of an academic journal article (click on the JSTOR image icon to view)
As with encyclopedic resources, there are indexes for almost any topic that might be supplemental to literary research, and these may be arranged by subject discipline(history, philosophy, religion, art, etc), by period, or by region. If you are unsure of an appropriate index to use, try searching E-Research Tools By Subject and first try the "Recommended Databases.".
MLA International Bibliography
A major index of literary criticism, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies. In addition to indexing several thousand journals, MLA also covers relevant books, book chapters, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. MLA is a very ambitious index, providing indexing of criticism for all literatures worldwide, except for classical Greek and Latin literature.
MLA now links to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse, two major full-text journal collections.
Literature Resource Center
LRC contains the text of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selected critical excerpts or full text articles from various Gale criticism sets. It is possbile in LRC to search for authors individually or to perform a "Person Search," limiting by period, movement, nationality, etc. The Dictionary of Literary Biography provides bio-critical articles on authors. The ongoing print version of the DLB (Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978 - To Date) provides much excellent illustrative material not available in the electronic version.
Historical Abstracts
The principal index for non-North Americah history from the Renaissance (ca. 1450) to the present. Historical Abrstracts indexes books, book collections, articles, proceedings, dissertations, and reviews of scholarly books.
Film & Television Literature Index
Film and Television Literature Index covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television.
Academic Search Premier
Abstracts & references for articles from more than 8,200 scholarly, trade & general publications. A very broad, interdisciplinary index linking to much full text, Academic Search Premier is less specialized for literary criticism than MLA but good for book reviews, play & film reviews, etc. since about 1980.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides an archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. Coverage is from the first issue of journals to the recent past several years. MLA links to JSTOR articles.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a database of high quality visual images.
More Article Databases | How Do I Find Articles? | How Do I Find an Article if it is not Full-Text? | How Do I Distinguish Different Types of Journals?
Finding Books 
Catalog Search Tips
Subject searching for books in the Library's catalog is often best done by beginning with a Keyword Search . Start with a Keyword Search and identify one or more relevant books. Then look at the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) given in the Full Records of those titles. You can follow the subject heading links in the catalog to find similar books, or you can use the terms in the subject headings to revise your search strategies.
Keyword Search: french english dictionaries
Search by LC Subject Heading: French language--Dictionaries--English.
POTENTIALLY USEFUL LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799. Mariage de Figaro.
Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de, 1777-1828.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Literature and the revolution.
Laclos, Choderlos de, 1741-1803. Liaisons dangereuses.
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755. Lettres persanes.
Politics and literature--France--History--18th century.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Political and social views.
Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817.
Search for books By a literary author as an Author search; search for books About a literary author as a Subject search.
Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
Subject: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
French Dictionaries
Collins Robert French dictionary. [editors, Daphne Day ... [et al.]. Glasgow : HarperCollins, 2005.
Davis Reference PC2640 .C69 2005
The concise Oxford-Hachette French dictionary : French-English, English-French. Oxford ;New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Although this is the "concise" Hachette, it is available electronically as well as in print. E-version is 2001.
Information & Library Science Library Reference PC2640 .C735 1998
Le grand Robert de la langue française. 6 vols. Robert, Paul, 1910-1980. Paris : Dictionnaires Le Robert, c2001.
A standard & authoritative French language dictionary.
Davis Reference PC2625 .R552 2001
Encyclopedias for French Literature
Subject encyclopedias can be very useful for providing an overview and context for a variety of specialized topics. Most essays will also include a bibliography.
Writers of the French Enlightenment, I & II. Edited by Samia I. Spencer. Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2005.
These 2 volumes, part of the Dictionary of Literary Biography series, contain bio-critical essays on Beaumarchais, Laclos, Montesquieu, & Rousseau, among many others. The text of these essays is electronically available via LRC.
Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185, v. 313 & v. 314
Nineteenth century French fiction writers : romanticism and realism, 1800-1860 . Edited by Catharine Savage Brosman. Detroit : Gale Research, 1992.
DLB, v. 119, this contains essays on Balzac & de Staël. The text is available electronically via LRC
Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185, v. 119
French women writers : a bio-bibliographical source book. Edited by Eva Martin Sartori and Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman.
New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
This contains substantive essays on Claire Duras & Germaine de
Staël.
Davis Reference PQ149 .F73 1991
French History & Enlightenment Thought
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment [electronic resource] . 4 vols. Edited by Alan Charles Kors. Oxford ;New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Davis Reference B802 .E53 2003
A critical dictionary of the French Revolution. Edited by François Furet and Mona Ozouf. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989.
Davis Reference DC148 .D5313
Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Révolution et de l'Empire, 1789-1815 ... 2 vols. Ouvrage rédigé ...par le dr. Robinet, ... Adolphe Robert ...[et] J. Le Chaplain. Paris : Librairie historique de la Révolution et de l'Empire, [1899]
Davis Reference DC147 .R655 1997
Dictionnaire de l'histoire de France. 2 vols. Sous la direction scientifique de Jean-François Sirinelli. Paris : A. Colin : diffusion, Larousse, 1999.
Davis Reference DC35 .D52 1999
Europe 1789 to 1914 : encyclopedia of the age of industry and empire. 5 vols. John Merriman and Jay Winter, editors in chief. Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2006.
Davis Reference D299 .E735 2006
Literary Terminology & Theory
A handbook to literature. William Harmon. 11th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009.
A very clearly written handbook.
Davis Reference Desk PN41 .H355 2009
Le dictionnaire du littéraire. Publié sous la direction de Paul Aron, Denis Saint-Jacques, Alain Viala.
Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 2002.
Davis Reference PN41 .D486 2002
The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism. 2nd ed. Edited by Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman.Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Davis Reference Desk PN81 .J554 2005
MLA handbook for writers of research papers. Joseph Gibaldi. 7th ed. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
Davis Reference Desk LB2369 .G53 2009
Useful Websites
Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
See Other National Literatures
Voice of the Shuttle: French Literature (Alan Liu, UCSB)