Retexts: A Review Article
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Abstract
This article reviews a dozen new editions of Victorian texts published by Broadview Press (Peterborough, Canada) and another by Oxford University Press in its World's Classics series. Consideration of the various editions leads to reflections on appropriate ways of editing texts intended for university students. ********** Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors: Victorian Writing by Women on Women. Ed. by Susan Hamilton. 2nd edn. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2004. xxvii + 272 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-608-1. Illustrations of Political Economy: Selected Tales. By Harreiet Martinue. Ed. by Deborah Anna Logan . Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2004. 439 pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-441-0. The Communist Manifesto. By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . Ed. and trans. by L. M. Findlay. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2004. 256 pp. 4.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-333-3. The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories. Ed. by . Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2004. 495 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-356-2. The Personal History of David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens . (Facsimile reprint: London: Chapman and Hall, [1870?]) Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2001. [vi] + vi + 437 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-429-1. The Way We Live Now. By Anthony Trollope. (Facsimile reprint: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875) Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2005. 408 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-756-8. Romola. By George Eliot. (Facsimile reprint: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863) Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2005. [iv] + 250 + [vi] pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN1-55111-757-6. Middlemarch. By George Eliot. Ed. by Gregory Maertz. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2004. 739 pp. 6.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-233-7. Guanya Pau. By Joseph Jeffrey Walters J. Ed. by Gareth Griffiths and John Victor Singler. Peterborough. Ont.: Broadview Press. 2004. 205 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-365-1. Wormwood. By Marie Corelli. Ed. by Kirsten MacLeod. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2004. 407 pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-419-4. The Story of a Modern Woman. By Ella Hepworth Dixon. Ed. by Steve Farmer. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2004. 295 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-380-5. The Woman Who Did. By Grant Allen. Ed. by Nicholas Ruddick. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2004. 238 pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-510-7. The Beetle. By Richard Marsh. Ed. by Julian Wolfreys. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2004. 364 pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-55111-443-7. Late Victorian Gothic Tales. Introduction and notes by Roger Luckhurst. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xliv + 282 pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-280480-4. Of making editions there is no end. Let us, to continue in the vein, be glad thereat. For undergraduate reading lists will inevitably be shaped in large measure by what is readily available at reasonable prices. Besides, only the most serendipitous of browsers in second-hand bookshops are likely to light on some of the less well-known of the works under review here. Undistinguished typography, crowded pages, cramped margins, and brittle bindings, once characteristic particularly of North American paperback reprints, appear now to have been superseded, and Broadview Press is producing texts that many will probably judge more attractive than Oxford University Press's well-known World's Classics, which are themselves by no means unacceptable. The rather longer pages are printed on whiter paper, and there is just a little more space for readers' marginal comments. Chapter titles, however, are not always accommodated as running heads; this is regrettable as they help focus attention. …
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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 | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.034 | 0.007 |
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".