Theatrical Nation: Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain, by Michael Ragussis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Michael Ragussis, the distinguished scholar of anti-Semitism in nineteenth-century Britain, died shortly after the publication of this monograph. He has left behind a provocative polemic that will incite productive debate for many years to come. As in the case of his important Figures of Conversion: ‘The Jewish Question’ and English National Identity (1995), this present book is a significant intervention in multiple fields of enquiry. It offers a history of ethnic conflict in the British Isles during the late eighteenth century that counteracts Linda Colley’s arguments about the consolidation of British national solidarity from the Seven Years War onward. By focusing on conflict, dissension and on the sheer longevity of ethnic stereotypes, Ragussis mobilises a diverse archive of material which testifies to the fractious splintering of the population in a period of ostensible assimilation and national identification. Much of the book’s first chapter is concerned with building an argument for the importance of looking at how ethnicity is mobilised in representation. But the transformative aspect of this book is a shift in the field of analysis. Theatrical Nation is yet another example of how recent work on the theatre is changing our understanding of Georgian culture in quite fundamental ways.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 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".