Migrations, multiple allegiances, and satirical traditions: from Frances Brooke to Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Bibliographic record
Abstract
At the close of the Seven Years’ War in 1763, which gave England almost total control of the continent of North America until the American Revolution, only a handful of English administered a newly conquered population of 60,000 French Canadians. It has been asserted that this period witnessed “a literature of information rather than a literature of imagination.” It is indeed for its documentary qualities that certain critics appreciate The History of Emily Montague (1769), published in England but nonetheless the earliest novel to emanate from the North American continent. The quality of its descriptions of the Kamouraska region has effectively incited critics to treat it as travel literature. Yet the writer Frances Brooke (1724–89) undeniably reconfigured the topography, institutions, and social interactions of the French and English elites in the newly acquired colony of what is today Quebec, struggling notably, as Susanna Moodie would, with the gap between Old World diction and decorum, and New World landscape – the embodiment of Burkean sublimity. The History of Emily Montague Moving in the literary circles of Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, and Fanny Burney, Mrs. Brooke was an established editor, translator, playwright, and novelist ( The History of Lady Julia Mandeville , 1763) before leaving England to reside in Quebec City in 1763. As well as a travel book intended for an English readership in search of exotic settings and mores, Emily Montague has been labelled a romance (although almost totally devoid of the conventional melodramatic trappings the genre had adopted), a novel of sentiment, or a novel of manners, and the book has often been reduced to an uneventful love story.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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".