Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ‘Inner Standing-Point’ and ‘Jenny’ Reconstrued
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The idea that the ‘emotional influence’ of art demands an ‘inner standing-point’ was first expressed in writing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1869, but it did not appear in print until 1871, when he summoned it as part of his defence of his poem ‘Jenny’ against the ‘Fleshly School’ attack of Robert Buchanan. When understood as a form of Einfühlung/empathy and ‘negative capability,’ the idea can be seen operating in several of Rossetti's poems and pictures of the period of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848–53) and earlier. So understood, it also provides a crucial and highly productive point of entry into ‘Jenny,’ where the reader is asked to feel inside the ‘situation’ and mentality of the ‘young and thoughtful man of the world’ who speaks the ‘semi-dramatic monologue’ while the prostitute of the title lies asleep on his knee. In the course of his increasingly sympathetic response to Jenny, the speaker creates an intricate web of allusions to biblical texts, references to contemporary legislation, and intertextual relationships with works by such artists and writers as Augustine, Titian, Hogarth, Ruskin, and E.B. Browning.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".