Selected Reference Sources
The Library of Congress classification for French Literature is the range PQ 1-4000.
- The Cambridge history of French literaturePublication Date: 2011edited by William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond and Emma Wilson. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
"From Occitan poetry to Francophone writing produced in the Caribbean and North Africa, from intellectual history to current films, and from medieval manuscripts to bandes dessine;es, this History covers French literature from its beginnings to the present day. With equal attention to all genres, historical periods and registers, this is the most comprehensive guide to literature written in French ever produced in English, and the first in decades to offer such an array of topics and perspectives. Contributors attend to issues of orality, history, peripheries, visual culture, alterity, sexuality, religion, politics, autobiography and testimony."-- publisher. - Dictionnaire des écrivains francophones classiques: Belgique, Canada, Québec, Luxembourg, Suisse romande byPublication Date: 2013Print.
- Dictionnaire des lettres françaises byPublication Date: 1972Print.
Alphabetically arranged literary encyclopedia of the French Renaissance. Sources listed with each entry. 7 vols. (vols 3 and 5 in two parts) - Histoire de la langue et de la littérature française des origines à 1900 byPublication Date: 1896-1899Print. 8 volumes.
- Histoire de la littérature de langue française des années 1930 aux années 1980 byPublication Date: 1985Print.
- The new Oxford companion to literature in French byPublication Date: 1995Print copy: See Print edition of The new Oxford companion to literature in French for location/call number