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There are many direct and indirect online resources relating to the study of Literature. This list of resources, while by no means exhaustive, provides a basic starting point for research on the multiple aspects of World Literature, including French Literature. It is important to remember that when searching for reviews of particular book titles, most of the databases listed will allow searching exclusively for book reviews.
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles, and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains more than 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals and 1,000 book publishers.
Articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. NOTE: In many cases, articles from the last 3-5 years are NOT available due to publisher copyright restrictions.
A database of humanities and social science content. Offers complete, full-text versions of more than 700 scholarly journals from many of the world's leading universities and scholarly societies and more than 60,000 books from more than 100 publishers.
Offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high-quality indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, dating as far back as 1907, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews.
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present
Biographical information and critical essays on novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and others. Includes the contents of Children’s Literature Review (CLR), Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (LC), Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (NCLC), and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).
Here are some select periodicals on French language, literature, and culture. Some titles are only available online for (for CMU users) or in print, while others are available in both formats.