Romance Literature

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Facts and Background Information
Selected print and electronic encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc.
Books
Locate items in the library catalog and other libraries.
Articles
Use indexes to search for articles in journals, proceedings, etc.
Primary Sources
Websites
Recommended academic, professional, and learned societies sites, and more.
Contact a Librarian

Below are a few major, frequently used sources for the study of Romance literature. See also the research guide to General Humanities.

Please consult with a reference librarian for directions to many more sources in your topic. Internet resources require a Tufts I.D. number for off-campus access (authorized users statement).

 

Facts and Background Information     [back to top]

Language Dictionaries

French
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PC2625]

Le Robert electronique. Dictionnaires Le Robert.
[CD-ROM - Request at Tisch reference desk]
CD-ROM edition of Le Grand Robert de la langue francaise. Includes accompanying guide: [PRINT. Tisch reference desk PC2625 .R5525].

French-English
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PC2640]

Italian
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PC1625]

Italian-English
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PC1640]

Spanish
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PC4625]

Spanish-English
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PC4640]

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
This is a fully searchable, comprehensive bilingual dictionaries online resource. In addition to dictionaries, OLDO includes unique study materials on topics such as life & culture, grammar & vocabulary, and writing & word games. There is also a Dictionary Skills Resource Packs, a teaching & learning resource for each language that includes lesson plans and worksheets.

Literary Guides, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

French

Dictionnaire des litteratures de langue francaise. Bordas.
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PQ41 .B4]

Dictionnaire des oeuvres litteraires de langue francaise. Bordas.
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PQ41 .B42]

Dictionnaire des oeuvres litteraires du Quebec. Fides.
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PQ3901 .D5]

Guide to French Literature. St. James Press.
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PQ226 .L48]

New History of French Literature. Harvard University Press.
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PQ119 .N48]

New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PQ41 .N48]

Italian:

Dictionary of Italian Literature. Greenwood Press.
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PQ4006 .D45 1996]

Spanish:

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Fitzroy Dearborn.
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PQ7081 .A1 E56 1997]

Guide to Reference Works for the Study of the Spanish Language and Literature and Spanish American Literature. Modern Language Association of America.
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PC4071 .W66 1987]

Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language. Scarecrow Press.
[PRINT. Tisch Reference Z2695 .A2 B55 1983]

Find Books     [back to top]

These databases use Library of Congress subject headings:

Library Catalog How To Use

Boston Library Consortium Catalogs How To Use

Worldcat How To Use
Catalog records from thousands of North American libraries.

For more on how to find books and search subjects in Romance literature, click here.

Find Articles     [back to top]

MLA International Bibliography 1963- How To Use
An international index to books and journals on the modern languages and literatures, including linguistics and folklore. Publications from 1921 to 1962 are covered in printed volumes at Tisch Reference Indexes [HUM] Z7006 .M64.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Institute for Scientific Information, 1974- How To Use
Provides author, subject and citation access to journal articles and book reviews in the arts and humanities. Coverage from 1974. Part of Web of Science.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI). 1970-
Scholarship on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States: citations to articles, book reviews, documents, literary works, and other material in more than 500 international social science and humanities journals, published from 1970 to the present. Many citations are linked to full-text.

International Medieval Bibliography. Brepols, 1967-
An international index to medieval topics (400-1500) in literature, language, history, archaeology, art, music, theater, Arabic and Islamic studies, and religion and philosophy. IMB covers 4,500 journals and over 5,000 miscellany volumes in 30 languages.

French

French Periodical Index. F. W. Faxon Co., 1973-
[PRINT. Tisch Reference Indexes [GEN] AI7 .F7]

Electronic journals

Periodicals are listed in the library catalog. Holdings in all formats are unified in one record, and most entries for journals held in electronic format contain a hyperlink to the source; searches in the web-based catalog enable one to follow these links directly. A complete list of electronic journals is on the Tisch homepage under Electronic Journals.

Many humanities/social sciences journals held in digital format are parts of Project Muse or JSTOR. Although these databases include search engines for the journals they contain, the indexes listed above are the most comprehensive and authoritative sources for the literature of the discipline, and frequently link directly to our electronic journals.

For more on how to find articles, see Database Searching Tips (also available in PDF).

Primary Sources     [back to top]

French

ARTFL: American Research on the Treasury of the French Language 1981-
A full-text retrieval database of classical French writings. Users can create a dictionary and frequency count of words used in a text, trace origins of words or phrases back through the 17th century, etc. The database includes literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises. For accompanying print Bibliography (Vol. 1) and User's Guide (Vol. 2), see [PRINT. Tisch reference desk PQ1101 .A87].

ArchivesUSA How To Use
Information about primary source materials from U.S. manuscript repositories, with detailed indexes of manuscript and other special collections.

Websites     [back to top]

Tufts Department of Romance Languages & Literature

Gallica
One of the largest book digitization programs in the world, by the Bibliotheque nationale de France.

Electronic Text Center
University of Virginia.

Foreign Language Resource Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures Other Than English

For more on how to find and evaluate websites, see How to Evaluate Web Sources.

Contact a Librarian     [back to top]

Christopher Barbour. Contact for questions about library collections.
Chao Chen . Contact for reference questions and instruction requests.


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