World Languages and Cultures

Some Resources for Research in French Language, Literature and Culture and in General Humanities

• Library Catalogs- particularly useful in French and West European studies
  • Bibliothèque Nationale de France
  • Gallica - Online Electronic Texts of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
  • Library of Congress Online Catalog
  • National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, the Netherlands
  • Portuguese National Library (in Portuguese)
• History
  • French History in the US
  • French Dictionaries from 17th to 20th Century
• Middle Ages
  • Internet Medieval source book
• Seventeenth Century Studies
  • Extensive bibliography of Francophone Theater
• Eighteenth Century & Enlightenment Studies
  • Voltaire Foundation
  • American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
  • Online version of l'Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert
• Nineteenth Century Studies
  • Le Dix-Neuvième siècle, y compris études d'auteurs
  • SDN: Le Forum 19 (British Society of 19th century French studies)
  • The American Journal in Nineteenth-Century French Studies
  • Images and texts of the 19th century at the BNF
  • The Society of Germaine de Stael Studies
• Twentieth and Twenty-First Cent. Studies
  • Pictures of Proust's manuscripts and proofs at the French National Library
    • Photo 1
    • Photo 2
    • Photo 3
  • Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature
  • French Poetry
• Francophone Studies
  • Afrique Francophone
  • African Women's writing
• Francophone Associations
  • ACELF - Association canadienne d'éducation de la langue française
  • Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie
  • Association Internationale des Maires Francophones
  • Semaine de la langue française
• Philosophy
  • The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Online Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
  • Ressources pour l'étude et la réflexion philosophiques
• Women's Studies
  • French Feminist Theory, including Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Monique Wittig
  • Women's Studies Resources, Feminist Theory
  • Women's Studies and Feminist Theory resources at the UCSB
• Searchable engines to find articles
  • Canadian Search Engines for Periodicals
• Magazines, Journals and Periodicals
  • Magazine littéraire
  • Circuit (revue québecoise de musique)
  • French Studies Quarterly (Oxford PU, Society for French Studies)
  • Le Matricule des Anges, revue d'infos littéraires
  • L'Esprit Créateur-Home
  • Literature Film Quarterly
  • Mosaic, current
  • Sites