Article explores Jaucourt's unique citation of Zilia over Graffigny, indicating broader implications for women writers.
This article asks why Jaucourt chose (uniquely) to cite the fictional character Zilia as an authority in several articles he wrote for the Encyclopédie, while not citing Graffigny, the author of the novel in which Zilia appears, at all. The author considers citation strategies used by Jaucourt and others in the Encyclopédie, as well as feminist scholarship on women writers and on Graffigny in particular.
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