Relevant Databases
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowLiterature, language, linguistics, folklore.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexes the scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Includes article abstracts and citations of books and dissertations on world history from 1450 to the present.
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowContains full-text access to the journals French Studies, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, International Journal of Francophone Studies, Modern and Contemporary France, French Cultural Studies, Studies in French Cinema, and Modern Language Review.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowContains full-text archives for the journals French Historical Studies, The French Review, Yale French Studies, French Politics Culture and Society, Dalhousie French Studies, 19th Century French Studies, and French Forum
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowAccess for L&C College and Graduate School only. Provides 100% full-text, online access to more than 300 titles from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowPeer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowElectronic version of Oxford reference across a broad range of topics. Full-text.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowFull text of national, regional, and international newspapers, business, and legal sources and more.
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Reference Works
- Le Grand RobertIncludes 100,000 words and 325,000 quotations. Each entry includes pronunciation, etymology, historical uses, register, regionalities, and numerous examples.
- Le Petit RobertIncludes 60,000 terms, 40,000 quotations, and 16,000 sound files. A smaller, leaner version of Grand Robert.
- Dictionnaire des litteratures de langue francaiseThese volumes feature extensive bibliographies for most entries, an index of works, winners of major literary prizes up to 1993, and a chronology of life and works for selected authors.
- Dictionnaire egoiste de la litterature francaiseA witty and learned compendium of information on French literature that brings together famous and unknown writers, classic works and works that could be read more frequently, fictional characters, and ideas. It is a literary dictionary quite unlike any other.
- Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World LiteratureCovers world authors from many periods and genres, building an understanding of the various contexts -- from the biographical to the literary to the historical -- in which literature can be viewed. Identifies the significant literary devices and global themes that define a writer's style and place the author in a larger literary tradition as chronicled and evaluated by critics over time.
Web Resources
- Gallica This link opens in a new windowFrom the Bibliotheque Nationale in France. Search engine provides access to over 100,000 fully digitized volumes (full text!) and 300,000 digitized images. Concentration is on the 19th century.
- The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'AlembertFirst published over the course of more than twenty years (1751-1777), the 32 volumes of the Encyclopédie include 21 volumes of text with more than 70,000 articles on subjects ranging from asparagus to zodiac. The remaining 11 volumes contain engraved plates illustrating many of the articles. The Encyclopédie was the major achievement of the French Enlightenment whose aim, in Diderot's words, was to "change the common way of thinking" through the expansion of knowledge and the development of critical modes of thought.
