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Community only (available only to Northwestern faculty, students,
and staff)
- ALCS
Humanities E-Book Project, formerly known
as ACLS History E-Book Project
- L'Association
des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU)
- ARTFL
Project, University of Chicago
The Project for American and French Research on
the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise
of
Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF)
of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division
of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic
Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago. Includes the French
Women Writers Database; Encyclopedie de Diderot; Provencal Poetry; etc.
- ARTstor
Founded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides images of important paintings, architecture, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design. ARTstor combines images and related data from the following collections: The Image Gallery; The Art History Survey Collection; The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection; The Huntington Archive of Asian Art; The Illustrated Bartsch; The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive; The MOMA Architecture and Design Collection. ARTstor also recently reached an agreement with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, to distribute 30,000 high quality digital images from the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive.
- ATHENA,
Textes francais.
Collection of texts, and other useful links, from Switzerland.
Includes links to other
sites of interest to students
of literature in languages other than French.
- BASILE Base internationale de lettres électroniques du Moyen Age au XXe siècle (B.A.S.I.L.E.) [electronic resource] : la littérature narrative, romans, contes, nouvelles.
- La
Bibliothèque des lettres (Bibliopolis/ARTFL project)
Collection of databases of French literature.
Currently includes:
- Bibliotheque
Tintamarre: Oeuvres louisianaises sur Internet
Contains stories, novels,
collections of poetry, and drama as well as a selection of folktales
in Louisiana Creole.
- ClicNet,
un site culturel et littéraire francophone
Variety of
resources for teaching of French, and for Francophone culture, literature,
and arts.
- Corpus
des Oeuvres de Philosophie en Langue Francaise
Networked CD, available for use within the library. Inquire at the Reference
Desk. Contains full-text editions of works of French philosophers and
theorists; corresponds to the Fayard printed editions of the same name.
- Digital
18th Century: A Selection of Full-Text Electronic
Resources Available to the Northwestern Community
(PDF)
- Early
Modern French Women Writers Project, from the University of Minnesota
Electronic Text Research Center Texts from the 15th through the 17th century.
- Eighteenth
Century Collection Online (ECCO)
A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth
Century, the world's largest microfilm library of the printed book. ECCO,
when complete, will include digital versions of nearly 150,000 English-language
titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800; it will ultimately
allow full-text searching of over 33 million pages of English-language
and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom, along with
thousands of important works from the Americas.
- Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia
A collection of electronic text of literary works
in a variety of formats, including numerous French-language materials.
Note that many materials are not available to the general public.
- Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
- Encyclopedia
of Diderot and D'Alembert
Based at the University
of Michigan Library, contributors to this project are creating an online
version of the Encyclopedia translated into English, with links to the
original French versions.
- EuroDocs.
History of France: Primary Documents
- French
Women Writers, from ARTFL
- Gallica
Numerous periodicals across a wide range of subjects;
includes issues dating as far back as the late 17th century, in PDF. Access is now being provided to a select group of French-language papers. Check Gallica for updates. The following papers are currently available:
- Figaro: journal non politique. 1830-1942
- Journal de l'Empire. 1805-1814
- Journal des débats et des décrets. 1800-1805
- Journal des débats politiques et littéraires. 1820-1879
- L'Humanité : journal socialiste quotidien. 1904-1944
- L'Ouest-Eclair : journal quotidien d'informations, politique, littéraire, commercial.
- La Croix. 1883-1944
- La Presse. 1836-1853
- Le Figaro. Supplément littéraire du dimanche. 1876-1929
- Le Temps. 1861-1935
- Hydra
Professor Peter Krapp's website devoted to Derrida, Foucault,
and others. Includes Hydra, Post-Theoretical News, bibliographies,
links.
- Intelex
Past Masters
Full-text, searchable database of classic texts
in both original language and English translation. Latin and French section,
for example, includes Œuvres Complètes de René Descartes,
which is a complete new edition of the entire philosophical and scientific
corpus of Descartes, created by the Connaught Descartes Project at the
University of Toronto.
-
Edited by Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. Baltimore,
2005, 2nd edition. The Guide is a full-text searchable database
of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical
schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations
of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related
persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves
shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective
primary and secondary bibliography. Access restricted to Northwestern
users.
- Literature
of the French Middle Ages
Numerous links to French literature pages, non-literary Medieval Studies
pages, and collections of texts.
- Literary
Theory, from Chadwyck Healy
Inlcudes
full-text of materials for the history of literary criticism and theory.
Although matierals are in English, and the focus is on English and American
literary history and tradition, translations of important theorists who
have influenced contemporary theoretical debate in the English-speaking
world are available. Examples include works of Baudrillard and Derrida.
- Maison
de Balzac
Offers
free access to the Balzac concordance compiled by Professor Kazuo
Kiriu.
- Oxford
Digital Library, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
- Picpus. Digital Archive to Expand Picpus, Walled Garden of Memory
The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Florence Gould Foundation generously provided Northwestern's Multimedia Learning Center with funding for the creation of a digital archive that will investigate the Picpus Cemetery in Paris and examine the nature of commemorative monuments.
- Provençal
Poetry, from ARTFL
- Repère
Fulltext
Bibliographic citations and selected full text of
articles from French-language periodicals.
- Siege
and Commune of Paris, Northwestern University Library
Links to over
1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege
and Commune of Paris cir.1871. In addition to the images in this
set, the Library's Siege & Commune Collection contains 1500
caricatures, 68 newspapers in hard-copy and film, hundreds of books
and pamphlets
and about 1000 posters. For more information, contact Special
Collections.
- Textes
de Français Ancien, from ARTFL
- Voltaire électronique
(PhiloLogic)
An electronic version of the Voltaire Foundation's
Les Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire.
For further information, contact:
Andrea Stamm
Head, Bibliographic Services
Subject Liaison for French & Italian Languages & Literatures
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
astamm@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-7587
Office Location: Main Library, 1st Floor
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