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Record W1564396866 · doi:10.1057/9781137303851_7

Blackwood’s ‘Personalities’

2013· book-chapter· en· W1564396866 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2013
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature: history, themes, analysis
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRomanticismSubject (documents)Personality psychologyLiteraturePortraitHistoryPersonalityPhilosophyArtPsychologyPsychoanalysisArt history

Abstract

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Writing in his periodical The Friend in 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge described his contemporary moment as ‘this age of personality’. 1 Although this comment, which Coleridge later quoted in Biographia Literaria, has sometimes been taken as a generalized description of Romanticism itself, Coleridge was in fact responding to a specific debate about the place of ‘personalities’ in public discourse, and especially in periodical writing. In this essay, I will sketch the contours of that debate and show how Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine sought to transform it. Coleridge uses the term ‘personality’ in OED’s sense 6b: ‘a statement or remark referring to or aimed at a particular person, and usually disparaging or offensive in nature’. This sense of the word dates from the late eighteenth century (OED’s first citation is from 1769 in connection with the Junius letters) and is more often found in the plural. John Scott, reviewing Benjamin Robert Haydon’s Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, complained that Haydon had lowered his grand subject by including portraits of his contemporaries, especially Voltaire: ‘In this age of personalities, this is positively the worst personality we have yet witnessed’.2 Coleridge and Scott used the word in the same sense, not simply to describe a Romantic culture that understood literature as the product of an individual personality, but rather to condemn a culture overrun by public references to private individuals, in which, as Coleridge continued, ‘the meanest insects are worshipped with a sort of Egyptian superstition, if only the brainless head be atoned for by the sting of personal malignity in the tail!’3

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Full frame distilled prediction

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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.499
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0680.006

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.202
Teacher spread0.176 · 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