French Language and Literature 

Browsing location in Bobst: PQ1 to PQ3999, 1st floor reference and 8th floor stacks.

Note: in this call number range you will also find guides to French-language literature based on geographical region, such as Belgium, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Switzerland, etc.

Guide to French Literature. Levi, Anthony. Chicago: St. James Press, 1992.
Bobst REF1 PQ41.L48 1992
Arrangement is alphabetical by author or literary movement. Long articles focus on the canonical writers of French literary history; little coverage of Francophone writers, although a few of the more prominent figures from the Negritude movement are included.

Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Littéraires de Langue Française. Beaumarchais & Couty, ed. Paris: Bordas, 1994.
Bobst REF1 PQ41.B439 1994
This is a dictionary of works, rather than authors, so arrangement is alphabetical by title of work. Long signed essays focus mostly on French national writers but includes some other European French-language writers as well.

Francophone Literatures: An Introductory Survey. Jack, Belinda. New York: Oxford, 1996.
Bobst REF1 PQ3809.J33 1996
Arranged by geographical region, and then by country. Essays place literary history into its historical/colonial context. Each section includes a guide for further reading.