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Encyclopedias and Handbooks
Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de.
Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française.
Paris : Bordas, c1994.
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference | PQ41 .B4 1994
Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de.
Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires de langue française.
Paris : Bordas, 1994.
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference | PQ41 .D573 1994
Birkett, Jennifer.
A guide to French literature : early modern to postmodern.
Published New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | 840.9 B619, G946, 1997 In process-LC
Buchanan-Brown, J.
Cassell’s encyclopaedia of world literature.
New York: Morrow 1973.
Reference | 803 C344A In process-LC Cataloging Dept.
Dolbow, Sandra W.
Dictionary of modern French literature: from the age of reason through realism.
New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference | 840.3 D661, D554, 1986
Lilly Library | Reference | 840.3 D661, D554, 1986
Eva Martin Sartori and Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman.
French women writers : a bio-bibliographical source book.
New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference | PQ149 .F73 1991
France, Peter.
The New Oxford companion to literature in French.
Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Lilly Library | Reference | 840.3 N532, 1995
Perkins/Bostock Library | Carpenter Reading Room | PQ41 .N48 1995
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference | PQ41 .N48 1995
Grente, Georges.
Dictionnaire des lettres françaises.
Paris : A. Fayard, 1994.
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference | PQ41 .D532 1994
Harvey, Paul, Sir.
The Oxford companion to French literature.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1959.
Lilly Library | Reference | 840.3 H342O
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference | PQ41 .H3 1959
Joyce M. H. Reid.
The Concise Oxford dictionary of French literature.
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1976.
Lilly Library | Reference | 840.9 C744, 1976
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference Desk | PQ41 .C6 1976
Laffont, Robert, and Valentino Bompiani.
Dictionaire des oeuvres de tous les temps et de tous les pays: littérature, philosophie, musique, sciences.
Paris, S.E.D.E. [1962-68, c1952-54].
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference | PN41 .D48a 1962
Laffont, Robert, and Valentino Bompiani.
Dictionnaire des personnages, littéraires et dramatiques de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Poésie, théâtre, roman, musique.
Paris, Société d'édition de dictionnaires et encyclopédies 1960.
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference | PN41 .D48 1960
Levi, Anthony.
Guide to French literature : beginnings to 1789.
Detroit : St. James Press, c1994.
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference | PQ41 .L49 1994
Levi, Anthony.
Guide to French literature : 1789 to the present.
Chicago : St. James Press, c1992.
Perkins/Bostock Library | Reference | PQ41 .L48 1992
Makward, Christiane P.,
Dictionnaire littéraire des femmes de langue française : de Marie de France à Marie NDiaye.
Paris : Karthala, 1996.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference | PQ149 .M35 1996
Sartori, Eva Martin.
The feminist encyclopedia of French literature.
Published Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | 840.99287 F329, 1999 In process-LC
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