Temma Berg, The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Circle of Acquaintance.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
IN The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Circle of Acquaintance Temma Berg and Ashgate have published a unique if highly problematic hybrid of literary criticism, historical scholarship, fiction, and biography. Unique because we rarely see new critical works which print and attempt to contextualize the letters of relatively unknown eighteenth-century correspondents. Problematic because, as Berg puts it, her main goal is to consider ‘the consequences of looking at historical documents as novelistic’ (7). The starting point was a collection of real letters which Berg located whilst researching material for a biography of Charlotte Lennox. Her discovery, in 1993, of two unpublished Lennox letters at the Society of Antiquaries revealed the ‘circle of acquaintance’ which forms the foundation of this book. The Lennox letters were part of a group of letters, all of which were addressed to one woman, Lydia Clerke, and reveal an intriguing network of kinship and friendship relations in the latter decades of the eighteenth century.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".