French : Literature

Explore an authoritative source of literary criticism, summarizing authors' lives and works and including excerpts from scholarly articles. IMPORTANT NOTE: Because this source is an encyclopedic work, it should NEVER be directly cited. Always look up the original source of the excerpted and reprinted articles. Coverage: varies. Mostly full text.

The main Database, ARTFL-FRANTEXT, contains over 3500 texts ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing from the 12th to the 20th century. 
Also includes over 150 works from French women writers from 16th to the 20th century; Les Dictionnaires d'autrefois (16 complete dictionaries from the 17th to the 20th centuries); over 500 major and minor French novels of the 19th century; 38 collections of Provençal Poetry from the 12th and 13th centuries; Textes de Français Ancien (TFA - 103 works from the 12th through 15th century); selected French Poetry works from middle ages to the 20th century; philosophical works in French from the Renaissance to the 20th century; The Journal de Trévoux, ou Mémoires pour l'Histoire des Sciences & des Beaux-Arts. 109 volumes, 1751-1758; Pierre Bayle, Dictionnaire historique et critique (5th Edition, 1740); Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database, 1,960 vernacular texts dated prior to 1375, including Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as many lesser-known texts; Histories of the French Revolution from 1789 to the 20th century; Études critiques du 19ème siècle: French literary and artistic criticism.
Coverage: 12th-20th centuries, contains primary sources. Full text.