French Literature Links
General
Medieval ^ topClicNet: Littérature francophone virtuel (C. Netter, Swarthmore C)
A directory of literature links which offers search capabilities.Club des Poètes: Anthologie de Poèsie Francophone
This site shares the authors' appreciation for some of the great voices in the canon of francophone poets.CRITAOI
Searchable archive of francophone literary criticism journals originating from the university communities of sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean.Gallica (BNF)
Digital library with an extremely large -- and growing -- database of texts and images. It is divided into “dossiers” on for example, French writers, travel writing, and full text of publications of 29 learned societies, from 1750 – 1914.Langue et littératures française et d’expression française (BnF)
Arranges sites by genre, century, and related subjects.Littérature de la langue française en ligne (CUNY, Lehman)
Gateway to sites on French literature (arranged by period).Sites on French Literature (C. Perry, U of Notre Dame).
Useful for web sites on selected authorsTennessee Bob’s Famous French Links (U. Tennessee, Martin)
A portal (part of the University of Tennessee’s Globe-Gate project) to web sites related to French language, literature, society and culture, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period.
Early Modern ^ topDScriptorum (Ed. Jesse D. Harlbut, Brigham Young U)
A project of digital images of Medieval manuscripts, with links to similar web sites and bibliographiesL’Encyclopédie Médiévale.
Provides biographical information on writers, online versions of their works, with a bibliography on authors and themes, and a glossary of terms.Liber Floridus.
More that 30,000 images from 1,600 illuminated medieval texts held at the Mazarine and Sainte-Genviève libraries.The Online Medieval & Classical Library (UC, Berkeley).
Offers links to “a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.” Arranged by title, author, genre, and language; also has a search engine for keyword, and links to other related Internet projects.
17th Century ^ topCentre d‘Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (Université François Rabelais)
Electronic versions of selected texts of Renaissance period.Cornucopie
Has links to electronic texts and more.
18th Century ^ topWeb17 (Ed. Roger Duchêne)
A frequently updated site that includes links to sites on selected authors, and news and information of professional interest (conferences, and upcoming publications etc).
19th Century ^ top
Clandestine E-Texts from the Eighteenth Century (G. Mori, U.Turin, Vercelli).
Annotated list of e-texts.Recherches littéraires sur le 18 siècle
Includes full text of and excerpts from many 18th century French works, digitized paintings, and a list of links to related sites.Spectacles du Grand Siècle (Guy Spielmann, Georgetown U).
Resources on French theatre from the 16th to the 18th century. Includes biographies, images of costumes and scenes, and a glossary of names and terms.XVIIIe Siècle: Bibliographie (Benôit Melançon, U Montreal).
Bibliography of criticism, from 1992 to present.
20th and 21st Centuries ^ topBalzac. La Comédie humaine.
Critical edition of the first edition of the text (Furne, 1842-1855 edition)ClicNet: Littérature francophone virtuel du XIXe siècle (C. Netter, Swarthmore C).
An alphabetical listing of authors, with links to web projects devoted to their works.Poetes.com(Jacques Lemaire, Collège Jean-de- Brébeuf).
Pages on 30-plus poets. Each author page has a short bio-bibliographical description, with links to the full text of poems.Resources sur le dix-neuvième siècle (T. Unwin, U Bristol)
List of resources, arranged by subject area.
Afrique francophone (Lehman C, CUNY).
An extensive directory of continent-wide and country-specific resources.île en île (Lehman C. CUNY)
A gateway to web sites devoted to the literature and culture of the French and Francophone islands of the Caribbean, Mediterranean, and Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Please send questions and comments to Miriam Conteh-Morgan