Research Guides: French Studies: Books

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You know the topic you want to write about, but you don't have a primary text (yet) to analyze? Book reviews and short articles can help make visible novels and other creative output among the French-language literary landscape.

Quinzaines
Literary journal active since 1966 that reviews new contemporary literature (narrative, poetry, theater) as well as analyzing classic works. Indispensable for discovering new authors.
Fabula
Important online resource for literary studies, including reviews, calls for proposals, interviews, etc.

Find Books

Dartmouth Libraries Search
Use the Library search to find books (print and ebook) and other materials in our library. Filter for print books, or materials in French, or by date.

WorldCat
WorldCat (the OCLC Union Catalog) books, periodicals, magazines, newspapers, maps, computer data files, manuscripts, sound recordings and any other type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. The database includes records for material from the 11th century to date. New records are added daily.

Ebooks and streaming film

Cairn eBooks Humanities
An online platform for interdisciplinary journals and books published in France and Belgium. Some representative publishers include Presses Universitaires de France, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, Presses de Science Po, Le Seuil, Tallandier, La Découverte, Karthala, De Boeck Supérieur, Picard, Kimé, and more.

OpenEditions Books
OpenEdition Books is an ebook platform for French-language books in the humanities and social sciences.
Digitalia Film
Streaming films from Spain, Europe and Latin America

Project Muse: premium collection
Includes titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, journals with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. Coverage includes 426 journals by 106 publishers.

National Libraries

Throughout the Francophone world, national libraries contain items that may not be available elsewhere. If you find an item in one of these libraries' catalogs, you may request it through Interlibrary Loan.

Scholarly Editions

Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition
The Bayeux Tapestry remains one of the most celebrated examples of medieval material culture. This electronic edition reassembles all of the Tapestry in a continuous scrolling format, and presents annotations of scholarship precisely keyed to relevant sections of the textile.

Oeuvres

Tout Voltaire
Comprehensive resource for Voltaire's writings, fully searchable.
Rousseau Online
Includes all of Rousseau's published writings, fully searchable, plus 400 letters.