Research Guides: French: Literature

Literary Guides and Dictionaries

Guide to French Literature
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) / PQ41 .L48 (2 vols.)
A Guide to French Literature: From Early Modern to Postmodern
Drexel Library PQ305 .B524 1997

The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature (1999)
Online ebook by Eva Martin Sartori
Cassell Guide to Literature in French
Drexel Library PQ103 .C27 1996
Dictionary of Modern French Literature: From the Age of Reason through Realism
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) / PQ41 .D65 1986
Dictionnaire des Littératures de Langue Française
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) / PQ41 .B4 1984 (4 vols.)
Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Littéraires de Langue Française
Drexel Library Reference (1st fl.) / PQ41 .B42 1994 (4 vols.)
A Critical Bibliography of French Literature
Multivolume chronological bibliography by David Cabeen.
Drexel Library PQ135 .C11

The following volumes in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series may also be accessed online via the Literature Resource Center.

Literature of the French and Occitan Middle Ages: Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
Drexel Library DF221.C8 L57 1999
Seventeenth-Century French Writers
Drexel Library PQ241 .S48 2003
Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Writers: Romanticism and Realism, 1800-1860
Drexel Library PQ655 .N56 1992
Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Writers: Naturalism and Beyond, 1860-1900
Drexel Library PQ661 .N56 1992
French Dramatists, 1789-1914
Drexel Library PQ501 .F733 1998
French Novelists 1900-1930
Drexel Library PQ671 .T94 1988
French Novelists 1930-1960
Drexel Library PQ671 .F68 1988
French Novelists Since 1960
Drexel Library PQ671 .F69 1989
Nineteenth-Century French Poets
Drexel Library PQ433 .N56 1999
Modern French Poets
Drexel Library PQ441 .M63 2002