Bibliographic record
Abstract
The cri du sang or 'call of blood' topos is common in French drama of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and in the English novel of the second half of the eighteenth. It was a topos used by Burney in both Evelina (her instant sympathy for Macartney) and The Wanderer (the instant sympathy of Lady Aurora Granville and Lord Melville for Juliet). For use here I would suggest an even more common and corollary topos, the cri de l'âme or 'call of the soul', also commonly used by Burney, in which two superior spirits recognise one another in spite of confusing circumstances. In her novels, though obstacles may intervene, all of Burney's lovers enjoy this rapport. Both these topoi, but particularly the second, depend upon the new hegemonic standard dependent on merit rather than blood, a standard that could instantly propel an individual to equality with aristocrats, to superiority over them. In their lives some of the Burney family were familiar with this recognition. In many ways their careers hung on this new standard. Apart from the class into which she was born - her father was just struggling to enter the situation of the middling sort - no ambitious young writer could hope to replicate the advantages of Burney's early life. From her first years she mixed with gifted adults of varying character and station. Garrick was a playmate. At Drury Lane she had free access to his box and, familiar with the repertory of plays, could mimic the actors in appropriate diction and style, and invent and enact their further adventures. Her acquaintance, she informed the Queen in 1787, had been very numerous and very mixed, taking in most stations in life and most political parties.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.036 | 0.004 |
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".