20th Century French Research Tools
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Database
MLA: http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/resource/article.asp
Internet Resources
Gallica (Holdings on-line of BnF): http://gallica.bnf.fr/Classique/
ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language): http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html
Literary History
Birkett, Jennifer, Sins of the Fathers: Decadence in France, 1870-1914 (1987)
Boisdeffre, Pierre de. Histoire de la littérature de langue française des années 1930 aux années 1980.Nouv. Éd entièrement ref. Paris: Libr. académique Perrin, 1985. 2 v
Brée, Germaine, 20th Century French Literature, 1920-70 (1983)
Breton, Geoffrey, A Short History of French Literature, 2d ed. (1976)
Broome, Peter, and Chesters, Graham, The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry, 1850-1950, (1976)
Cazamian, L. F., A History of French Literature (1955 repr. 1967)
Cruickshank, John, Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt (1959)
Engler, Winfried, The French Novel, from 1800 to the Present, trans. by Alexander Gode (1969); Esslin, Martin, The Theater of the Absurd (1961 rev. ed. 1973)
Fowlie, Wallace, Dionysus in Paris: A Guide to Contemporary French Theater (1960),
--. French Literature: Its History and Its Meaning (1973)
Guicharnaud, Jacques and June, Modern French Theater (1967)
Hollier, Denis, ed., A New History of French Literature (1989)
Maurois, Andre, From Proust to Camus, trans. by Carl Morse and Renaud Bruce (1968)
Peyre, Henri, French Novelists of Today (1967)
Picon, Gaëtan, Contemporary French Literature: 1945 and After (1974)
Robinson, Christopher, French Literature in the 20th Century (1980)
Bibliographies
Beach, Cecilia. French Women Playwrights of the Twentieth Century : a Checklist. Westport, CT. : Greenwood Press, c1996..
Gershman, Herbert S. A Bibliography of the Surrealist Revolution in France. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969.
Krawitz, Henry. A Post-Symbolist Bibliography. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1973.
Literary Encyclopedias and Handbooks
Cassell's Encyclopedia of World Literature. Rev. ed. 3 vols. London: Cassell, 1973.
Dictionaire des Oeuvres de Tous les Temps et de Tous les Pays: Littérature, Philosophie,Dictionnaire des Personnages Littéraires et Dramatiques de Tous les Temps et de Tous les Pays: Poésie, Théâtre, Roman, Musique. 5 vols. Paris: S.E.D.E. 1952-68.
Dizionario Lettarario Bompiani delle Opere e Dei Personaggi di Tutti i Tempi e di Tutte le Letterature. 9 vols. Milan: V. Bompiani, 1947-57.
Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. 7 vols. Zurich: Kindler Verlag, 1965-72.
Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de. Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française. [Nouv. ed. mise à jour et enrichie]. Paris: Bordas, c1994. 4 v.
Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de. Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de langue française. Paris: Bordas, c1994. 4 v.
Dictionnaire des Lettres Françaises. 5 vols. in 7. Paris: A. Fayard, 1951-72.
Dizionario Critico della Letteratura Francese. 2 vols. Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editirice Torinese, 1972.
French Women Writers: a Bio-bibliographical Source Book. Edited by Eva Martin Sartori and Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Harvey, Sir Paul. The Oxford Companion to French Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.
Levi, Anthony. Guide to French Literature. Chicago: St. James Press, c1992-94.
Research Guides / Handbooks in French Literature
Baker, Robert K. Introduction to Library Research in French Literature. (Westview Press, 1978)
France, Peter, ed. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. (Oxford, 1995)
Kempton, Richard. French Literature: an Annotated Guide to Selected Bibliographies. (MLA, 1981)
Osburn, Charles B. Research and Reference Guide to French Studies. 2nd ed. (Scarecrow Press, 1981)