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Record W2169706725 · doi:10.1057/9781403980182_3

Ailing Women in the Age of Cholera: Illness in Shirley

2004· article· en· W2169706725 on OpenAlex
Beth Torgerson

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueVictorian review · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature: history, themes, analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMythologyPower (physics)Displacement (psychology)Marxist philosophyCharacter (mathematics)Subject (documents)EmptinessHistoryLiteratureArtSociologyPhilosophyPsychoanalysisLawPsychologyPolitical sciencePoliticsTheologyPhysics

Abstract

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Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Shirley, is a novel of displacements. Even the novel’s title is an indication of the novel’s penchant for displacement since the title character, Shirley Keeldar, does not appear until the end of Volume I, long after readers’ sympathies are attached to Caroline Helstone. Within the text, the displacements happen on three levels, two of which have already been explored by scholars. Terry Eagleton explores the first level of displacement in Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontes, showing how Bronte displaces the contemporary events of the 1848 Chartist Rebellion onto the earlier Luddite Rebellion of 1811–1812. Eagleton contends, “there can be no doubt that Chartism is the unspoken subject of Shirley” (45). In the second level of displacement, Shirley’s overt concern with class conflict hides Bronte’s primary concern with gender issues. Feminist critics, such as Susan Gubar and Juliet Barker, have explored how Shirley’s class issues cover for Bronte’s protest against conditions for women. Gubar notes, “this book about the ‘woman question’ uses the workers’ wrath to enact the women’s revenge against the lives of enforced emptiness, of starvation” (233). Barker agrees that “the whole story [Shirley] was an exploration of the ‘Woman Question’” in light of Bronte’s omission of the “question of the rights and sufferings of mill workers” (603).

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.994
Threshold uncertainty score0.666

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.216 · 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