French 260H : La Femme objet, la femme sujet aux 19e, 20e et 21e siècles: représentations littéraires et cinématographiques françaises et francophones
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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.
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Primary Texts
ARTFL Project
A major database of searchable French texts, plus other specialized searchable text databases.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature (Western European Studies Section, ACRL)
The Oxford Book of French Verse: XIIIth Century to XIXth Century
Finding Academic Journal Articles 
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MLA International Bibliography
A major index for 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 literarture. 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 search for "Authors by Type," 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, & references for The NY Times. 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.
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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.
Keyword Search: francophone literature
Search by LC Subject Heading: French literature--French-speaking countries--History and criticism.
Keyword Search: flaubert women
Search by LC Subject Heading: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880--Relations with women
Keyword Search: george sand women
Search by LC Subject Heading: Sand, George, 1804-1876--Political and social views.
Keyword Search: sex role french literature
Other Potentially Useful LC Subject Headings:
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867--Criticism and interpretation.
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960--Homes and haunts--Algeria.
Feminism and literature--France--History--19th century.
Feminism and literature--France--History--20th century.
Women and literature--France--History.
Search for books By a literary author as an Author search; search for books About a literary author as a Subject search.
Author: flaubert gustave
Subject: flaubert gustave
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 & History
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.
The New Oxford companion to literature in French . Edited by Peter France. Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ;New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Davis Reference Desk PQ41 .N486 1995
The Cambridge introduction to Francophone literature. Patrick Corcoran. Cambridge ;New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
This work provides an overview of the literature of French-speaking nations in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Davis PQ3809 .C67 2007
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
Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française. 3 vols. J.-P. de Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty, Alain Rey. Paris : Bordas, c1984.
Davis Reference PQ41 .B4 1984
Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires de langue française. 4 vols. Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty. Paris : Bordas, c1994.
Davis Reference PQ41 .B42 1994
Guide to French literature : beginnings to 1789. Anthony Levi. Detroit : St. James Press, c1994.
Davis Reference PQ41 .L484 1994
Guide to French literature : 1789 to the present. Anthony Levi. Chicago : St. James Press, c1992.
Davis Reference PQ41 .L485 1992
A guide to French literature : early modern to postmodern. Jennifer Birkett and James Kearns.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Davis PQ305 .B524 1997
Women Writers & Feminist Thought
Dictionnaire littéraire des femmes de langue française : de Marie de France à Marie NDiaye. Christiane P. Makward et Madeleine Cottenet-Hage. Paris : Karthala, c1996.
Davis Reference PQ149 .M27 1996
The feminist encyclopedia of French literature. Eva Martin Sartori, editor-in-chief. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Davis Reference PQ149 .F47 1999
French women writers : a bio-bibliographical source book. Edited by Eva Martin Sartori and Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman.
New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
Davis Reference PQ149 .F73 1991
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 PN81 .J554 2005
MLA handbook for writers of research papers. Joseph Gibaldi. 6th ed. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
Davis Reference Desk LB2369 .G53 2003
Useful Websites
Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
See Other National Literatures
Voice of the Shuttle: French Literature (Alan Liu, UCSB)