Orphan, Embroiderer, Insect, Queen: The “Elegant and Ingenious” Art of Being Ellena in Radcliffe's<i>The Italian</i>(1796)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Scholarly tradition has consistently regarded Ellena Rosalba, the heroine of British novelist Ann Radcliffe's The Italian (1796), as the passive and naïve victim to the Gothic tyrannies of that novel's patriarchal class system. Reading her first and foremost as an assailed heroine and tractable object of masculine desire, scholars have overlooked the subtle material tactics which Ellena deploys in order to participate in the Neapolitan market and define her subjectivity, despite her social marginality as an unmarried, orphaned, and “friendless” young woman of only moderate economic means. The present paper considers the ways in which Ellena's relation to and creation of material culture and, particularly, art objects offer her means to economic independence, personal agency, and self-expression as a working artist. This paper argues that Ellena's active engagement with art and, in particular, domestic arts such as needlework, sketching, painting, and music, disrupt the gendered hierarchies implied by Burkean aesthetic categorizations of the sublime and the beautiful. Ellena's relation to the domestic arts and the material economies of daily life, the author suggests, here affords the female-gendered subject access to a decidedly democratized mode of transcendental experience which partakes equally of the sublime and the beautiful.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".