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Record W1544158432 · doi:10.1080/10509585.2015.1028130

Sydney Owenson's Tropics

2015· article· en· W1544158432 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Romantic Review · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTravel Writing and Literature
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRomanceSympathyPoeticsMetonymySentenceLiteraturePragmaticsHistoryTragedy (event)LinguisticsSociologyPhilosophyMetaphorPoetryArtPsychologySocial psychology

Abstract

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Readers of Sydney Owenson's 1811 novel The Missionary: An Indian Tale have usually understood it generically: as a romance of imperial reconciliation or a tragedy of failed imperial sympathy. This essay argues that Owenson's treatment of Anglo-Indian relations is best read in conjunction with works of tropical medicine, which, like The Missionary, seek to intervene directly rather than to theorize, recommend, or describe. In emphasizing the pragmatics of The Missionary, this essay seeks to reorient readers’ attention toward Owenson's sentence-level poetics, more specifically her enchainment of metonymies, which produces for its readers a syntactical as well as lexical experience of equivalence without prioritization and speed without rest. In contrast to the strictures on disease and contagion in medical writing about India, Owenson's metonymies celebrate as well as enact the circulatory motions of the Anglo-Indian sphere her novel depicts.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.559
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.074
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.175 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it