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Bree, Genevieve. Twentieth Century French Literature. Chicago University Press, 1984. General overview.
Brereton, Geoffrey. A Short History of French Literature. . Penguin, Popular survey of authors, works, and major developments.
Charlton, D. G., ed. France: a Companion to French Studies. Methuen, 1972. 
Cruickshank, John, ed. French Literature and its Background. Oxford University Press, 1968-1970. Critical essays on 16th- to 20th-century literature.
Dolbow, Sandra W. Dictionary of Modern French Literature: from the Age of Reason through Realism. London: Greenwood, 1986. Literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Fowlie, Wallace. A Guide to Contemporary French Literature from Valery to Sartre. P. Smith, 1957. Covers a variety of genres, authors and styles.
France, Peter, ed. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. A comprehensive guide.
Guicharnaud, Jacques, and Guicharnaud, June. Modern French Theater: from Giraudoux to Genet. Yale University Press, Analysis of major dramatists.
Hollier, Denis, ed. A New History of French Literature. Harvard University Press, 1989. Critical essays on key moments in French literary history.
Mitterand, Henri. La Littérature du XXe siècle. Paris: Nathen, 1996. This is an excellent survey, in French.
Popkin, Debra, and Popkin, Michael, eds. Modern French Literature. London: Lorrimer, 1977. Substantial dictionary of 20th-century French literature.
Sartori, Eva Martin, and Zimmerman, Dorothy Wynne, eds. French Women Writers. University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Bio-bibliography.
Thompson, William, ed. The Contemporary French Novel. University Press of Florida, 1995. Critical essays.

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