Collins Memorial Library: FREN 430: Romanticism to Symbolism: Advice

Advice from Your Liaison Librarian

Pro Tips:

Contact a librarian whenever questions arise. Quick questions can be answered via email; more in-depth questions can be handled best with an appointment.
Work on your project consistently each and every week, so that materials have time to arrive from other libraries and we can answer your questions when you still have sufficient time to thoughtfully revise your work.
Seek out a variety of sources: books, essays in books, journal articles.
Use a variety of search tools: Primo, multiple databases, sometimes even Google Scholar. If your topic is interdisciplinary, take a look at related subject guides to find broader research tools.
Keep careful notes on all of your sources and use a citation management tool such as RefWorks or Zotero. If an online knowledge management tool is not for you, make sure that any system that you do use is thorough.

Digital Projects & Helpful Websites

Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
This site, initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments of Brown University, provides a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture. Includes a chronology, an annotated bibliography, and links to online resources.
Gallica
Digital library from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Essential site for French digital images and documents.
EuroDocs: History of France
Annotated bibliography of primary source documents on the Web.
L'histoire par l'image
Explorer les événements de l’histoire de France et les évolutions majeures de la période 1643-1945. À travers des peintures, dessins, gravures, sculptures, photographies, affiches, documents d’archives, nos études proposent un éclairage sur les réalités sociales, économiques, politiques et culturelles d’une époque.
Les manuscrits de Madame Bovary
Les amis de George Sand
Mapping Balzac

On Reserve (Fall 2019)

The reserve collection consists of assigned readings placed on short-term loan at faculty request. The reserve collection is open, browsable, and shelved by course number. It is located at the back of the Learning Commons on the main floor of the library.

The following selections have been placed on reserve for FREN 430 with a 24-hour loan period.

A History of Modern French Literature by Christopher Prendergast (Editor)
Call Number: PQ103 .H57 2017

ISBN: 9780691157726

Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most distinguished authorities on French literature, has gathered a transatlantic group of more than thirty leading scholars who provide original essays on carefully selected writers, works, and topics that open a window onto key chapters of French literary history.
French Literature: a cultural history by Alison Finch
Call Number: PQ142 .F56 2010

ISBN: 9780745628394

Publication Date: 2010

This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analyzing the relationship between French literature and France's evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day.
The Cambridge Companion to Balzac by Owen Heathcote (Editor); Andrew Watts (Editor)
Call Number: PQ2181 .C36 2017

ISBN: 9781107691285

This Companion provides a critical reappraisal of Balzac, combining studies of his major novels with guidance on the key narrative and thematic features of his writing.
The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire by Rosemary Lloyd (Editor)
Call Number: PQ2191.Z5 C24 2005

ISBN: 9780521830942

Essays in this Companion illuminate Baudelaire's writing both for the lay reader and for specialists. In addition to a survey of his life and a study of his social context, the volume includes essays on his verse and prose, analyzing the extraordinary power and effectiveness of his language and style, his exploration of intoxicants like wine and opium, and his art and literary criticism.
The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert by Timothy Unwin (Editor)
Call Number: PQ2249 .C28 2004

ISBN: 9780521815512

This volume offers a coherent overview of the Flaubert's work and critical legacy, and provides insights into the very latest scholarly thinking.
The Cambridge Companion to Zola by Brian Nelson (Editor)
Call Number: PQ2538 .C36 2007

ISBN: 9780521835947

The essays in this volume offer readings of individual novels as well as analyses of Zola's originality, his representation of society, sexuality and gender, his relations with the painters of his time, his narrative art, and his role in the Dreyfus Affair. Also includes a chronology, detailed summaries of all of Zola's novels, suggestions for further reading, and information about specialist resources.
S/Z by Roland Barthes
Call Number: PQ2169.R4 B3

ISBN: 9780374521677

Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."
Contre Sainte-Beuve by Marcel Proust
Call Number: PQ2631.R63 C62 1987

ISBN: 9782070324286

A posthumously published collection of essays, including several refuting the work of French literary critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve.
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: self and other in literary structure. by René Girard; Yvonne Freccero (Translator)
Call Number: PN3463 .G513

ISBN: 9780801818301

Discussion of the thesis that any goal which the protagonist of a novel seeks has been suggested by a mediator and that this "triangular desire" is the form of all great novels.
French Romantic Travel Writing: Chateaubriand to Nerval by C. W. Thompson
Call Number: PQ145.6.T7 T49 2012

ISBN: 9780199233540

Publication Date: 2012

This book provides a pioneering overview of the travel books produced by fourteen French Romantic writers in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The Gendered Lyric: subjectivity and difference in nineteenth-century French poetry by Gretchen Schultz.
Call Number: PQ433 .S33 1999

ISBN: 9781557531353

This book argues that gender difference contributes to the definition of aesthetic values and, indeed, shaped the representation of masculine and feminine subjectivity in nineteenth-century French poetry.
L'éros romantique: représentations de l'amour en 1830 by Pierre Laforgue.
Call Number: PQ653 .L34 1998

ISBN: 9782130492559
Mapping Memory in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture by Susan Harrow (Volume Editor); Andrew Watts (Volume Editor)
Call Number: PQ283 .M27 2012

ISBN: 9789042034587

Publication Date: 2012

This book focuses critical attention on a neglected century when France was struggling to negotiate the serially renewed memory of revolutionary turmoil and socio-cultural redefinition. This volume explores the spaces that the memory process claims and shapes, and it works to identify the crosscurrents that connect those spaces.
Paris As Revolution: writing the nineteenth-century city by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
Call Number: PQ283 .F46 1994

ISBN: 9780520086425

Publication Date: 1994

Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution. A cultural geography, Paris as Revolution "reads" the nineteenth-century city not in literary works alone but across a broad spectrum of urban icons and narratives.
Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France by Alison Finch
Call Number: PQ149 .F66 2006

ISBN: 9780521024549

Publication Date: 2006

Finch's account opens new perspectives on the interchange between male and female authors and on women's literary traditions during the period. She discusses popular and serious writing: fiction, verse, drama, memoirs, journalism, feminist polemic, historiography, travelogues, children's tales, religious and political thought - often brave, innovative texts linked to women's social and legal status in an oppressive society.