FREN 3101W: Methods in French and Francophone Studies

Contains a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and dictionary section of more than 500 cross-referenced entries on individual writers and key texts, significant movements, groups, associations, and periodicals, and on the literary reactions to major national and international events such as revolutions and wars.

A standard work of reference for English-speaking scholars covering French literature which provides a guide to ten centuries of literature produced in France and Francophone countries. Entries cover individual authors and works and each is discussed in detail within their historical, cultural, and intellectual context.

Written by 164 American and European specialists, the essays are introduced by date and arranged in chronological order, this book is one of the most most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition.