Language & Literature

Local Resources

The following represent some of the most important electronic resources related to French language and literature, whether in a direct or indirect way. Some are only available to UF affiliated users. They have not been separated by format and include full-text databases, indexes abstracts or dictionaries. It is intended to group them separately in a later revision of this home page.

1. The following three databases covering French language and literature are available through First Search:

MLA International Bibliography on FirstSearch

Available online through First Search, the largest annual index on French language, linguistics and literature, from Old French to the present. Besides all modern literatures and all languages, the MLA also indexes folklore, film studies and literary theory. Free text searching or using combinations of established descriptors allow for broad or narrow information retrieval.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index on FirstSearch

Indexes about 1000 periodicals in a variety of fields, including literature. It should be used for specific purposes not as a general index, like MLA. Contents are indexed in four ways, allowing user to identify "scholarship relevant to a topic by locating studies that cite pertinent book or article."

Dissertation Abstracts International on FirstSearch

Abstracts most American and Canadian dissertations and some British ones. Online version allows keyword searches of titles and of abstracts since 1980. Keyword of abstracts is very useful because of the sometimes imprecise subject classification.

2. Francis on Eureka, produced at the CNRS and available through the Eureka gateway, combines 19 indexes in the humanities and social sciences in one large database covering ca. 6000 journals. It can be used as a supplement to MLA for French literature and language.

3. Historical Abstracts: http://serials.abc-clio.com/

Indexes and abstracts the historical literature from 1450 to the present. Important for retrieving articles on writers and literature from journals not usually indexed by MLA. Primarily useful for advanced research.

4. Le Robert Electronique. On CD-ROM. The electronic version of the Dictionnaire alphabetique et avalogique de la langue franciaise.

5. ARTFL: American Research on the Treasury of the French Language: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html (Access restricted to UF affiliated users).

The most important French textual database, comprising some 2000 texts and still expanding. It is fully searcheable focusing on specific texts or the entire database. It also provides word frequency lists. The database also provides a complete on-line version of Diderot's and D'Alembert's Encyclopedie, a Provencal poetry database and a number of historical French dictionaries, as well as the French Bible of Louis Segond and Parallel Bibles in German, Latin and English.

In addition it provides some collaborative projects, as well as additional resources and links to French language and literature servers.

Collaborative Projects

• Projects of the ItalNet consortium.
• Imminent release of 1076 medieval Italian documents from the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano database.
• Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629), an exposition of 450 page images of early Dante imprints.
• Inventory-Catalogue of the Drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosian, Milan from the Ambrosiana Archive, University of Notre Dame.
• The Textes de Fran¸ ais Ancien (TFA) database, devoted to Old and Middle French texts presented by the ARTFL Project in collaboration with the Laboratoire de Fran¸ ais Ancien (LFA), at the University of Ottawa. This is a preliminary implementation, limited to ARTFL subscribers or acces by password.
• The Image of France, an index of the printed imagery authorized for publication in France, beginning in 1811 (complete up to 1818).
• University of Chicageo Electronic Text Services
• The Parisian Stage During the French Revolution.
• Voltaire Society of America

Links to additional resources

• The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago.
• Chicago Group on Modern France.
• Additional French Servers and Language and Literature Servers
• French Revolutionary Pamphlets: digital facsimiles of rare Revolutionary documents.
• Les tres riches heures du Duc de Berry.
• French Illuminated Manuscripts from the Bodleian Library.

Bibliographie sélective des travaux récents consacrés ã Albert Camus/rassemblér par Raymond Gay - Crosier: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/gaycros/Bibliog.htm

Maintained by Prof. Gay-Crosier of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida, this is a complete bibliography of books (from 1990) and articles (from 1994) on Camus, and updated regularly. An example of a scholarly electronic endeavor and essential for the interested student and scholar.