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Record W2080333397 · doi:10.3138/utq.77.3.801

Cold War Milton

2008· article· en· W2080333397 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Sharon Achinstein

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Toronto Quarterly · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy, History, and Historiography
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersArts and Humanities Research CouncilYale University
KeywordsHistoricismPoliticsHistoryCriticismNew HistoricismCommunismLiteratureContext (archaeology)Literary criticismClassicsLawPolitical scienceArtArchaeology

Abstract

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Careful analysis of the historical context in which the first (1953) volume of Yale's magisterial edition of Milton's prose works, ‘Yale I,’ was produced reveals how the Milton it represents was shaped by current events – specifically, how Cold War developments threatened editor Don Wolfe's very American vision of what a liberal society should be. The exhaustive historical detail provided in Yale I's textual apparatus, its introduction and notes, not only portrays the political turmoil of seventeenth-century England but also represents Milton as a fierce opponent of political dangers clearly perceived as similar to those rampant in Cold War America – dangers such as McCarthyite anti-Communism, the rise of the defence-driven research university, and the ascendancy of that institution's favourite form of literary studies, the New Criticism. Ironically, Wolfe's presentism safeguarded historicist interest in Milton, inoculating Milton studies not only against the de-historicizing drive of New Criticism but also against the later innovations of the New Historicism.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.852
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.162
Teacher spread0.147 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2008
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