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French & Francophone Literatures

This subject guide provides a starting point for literary research on French and Francophone literatures in the UC Berkeley Library.

General Guides & Literary Histories

Bibliographie de la littérature française du Moyen Âge à nos jours by René Rancoeur (ed.)
Paris: A. Colin, 1966-1980. v.1-v.15.
Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft by Otto Klapp
Frankfurt am Main: V. Klostermann, 1960-. v.1-10.
The Cambridge Companion to French literature by John D. Lyons (ed.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present by Timothy A. Unwin
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
The Cambridge History of French Literature by William E. Burgwinkle et al. (eds.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
The Cambridge introduction to French Literature by Brian Nelson
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Chronologie de la littérature française by Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais et al.
Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris, 1991.
Critique et théorie littéraires en France : 1800-2000 by Jean-Louis Cabanès
Paris: Belin, 2005.
Dictionnaire chic de littérature française by Christian Authier
Paris: Écriture, 2015.
Dictionnaire de la littérature française et francophone by Pascal Mougin
Paris: Larousse, 2012.
Le dictionnaire du littéraire by Paul Aron et al.
Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2004.
Du classicisme au réalisme : une histoire de la littérature française (XVIIe-XXIe siècles) by Michel Brix
Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2021.
French Language and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography by Fernande Bassan et al.
New York: Garland, 1989.
French Literature: A Cultural History by Alison Finch
Cambridge; Malden, MA: Polity, 2010.
Girls in French and Francophone Literature and Film by Daniela Pamela Di Cecco
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015.
Guide to French Literature by Anthony Levi
Chicago: St. James Press, 1992-1994. v.1-2.
A Guide to French Literature: From Early Modern to Postmodern by Jennifer Birkett and James Kearns
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Histoire de la France littéraire by Michel Prigent
Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2006.
Histoire de la littérature française by Gustave Lanson
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1922.
Histoire des dictionnaires de littérature française by Giovanni Dotoli
Paris: Hermann, 2018.
L'histoire littéraire à l'aube du XXIe siècle by Luc Fraisse (ed.)
Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2005.
Historical dictionary of French literature by John Flower
Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2013.
History of Modern French Literature by Christopher Prendergast
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.
La littérature française : dynamique & histoire by Jean-Yves Tadié and Jacqueline Cerqueglini-Toulet
Paris: Gallimard, 2007. v.1-2
A New History of French Literature by Denis Hollier and Howard R. Bloch
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
A New History of Medieval French Literature by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French by Peter France
Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press, 1995.
Précis d'histoire de la littérature française by Roland Biétry
Geneva: Loisirs et pédagogie, 2003. v.1-2.
Ruelles, salons et cabarets : histoire anecdotique de la littérature française by Emile Colombey
Paris: A. Delahays, 1858.
Trois siècles de la littérature française - anthologie française I : illustrés par des morceaux choisis de leurs meilleurs auteurs by Friedrich Kreyssig
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015.
Une histoire brève de la littérature française by Alain Viala
Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2014-. v.1-3.