The Secular Jane Austen: Radical Reflexivity and the Nova Effect
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the received view Jane Austen was understood to occupy an innovative place in literary history as a novelist, but a conservative one as regards sensibility and outlook. Typically, she was regarded as a dyspeptic moralist, with Johnsonian and Burkean tendencies, who as such was more eighteenth-century than Romantic. Recent critics have sought to debunk this view—arguing for Austen's Romanticism in the process—by stressing a hidden, "subversive" Austen. This essay instead argues that Austen's place in literary history, her Romanticism, is best understood as arising out of her apparent conservatism. To understand Austen appropriately, as a religious writer working at the historical moment in which modern secularity was first fully instantiated, is also to understand the modernity of her use of the novel form. It is in her formal innovations that we discover her Romanticism.
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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 | 0.003 | 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) | 0.000 | 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