Mary Shelley,<i>Corinne</i>, and “the mantle of enthusiasm”
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Germaine de Staël’s writings, particularly Corinne with its portrait of the woman artist as improvisatrice and ideology of enthusiasm, play a significant role in Shelley’s thinking about notions of freedom. Shelley’s accounts of the improvisatore Tommaso Sgricci in her letters and journals and in her essay “The English in Italy” are influenced by her reading of Corinne and influence an exploration of the inspired woman in her fiction, as well as the critical perspective Shelley takes in her biography of Staël. The two writers share a conviction that emancipation arises from uniting inspiration with Godwinian forms of conversation and communality; Staël’s awareness of William Godwin is made clear in the second edition of De la Littérature. In Shelley’s own formulation, the improviser provides a model for female authority. If she shares with Staël a sense of the difficulty women writers have in finding a public voice, her opinions incorporate a deep familiarity with the writings of her father Godwin. Shelley imagines a space for women in the arena of political reform which frees them from the kinds of constraint Staël traces in her novel.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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 it