Bibliographic record
Abstract
Near the end of Burney's first published novel, Evelina , or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1778), there is a farcical contretemps. Rough Captain Mirvan brings a monkey, 'full dressed, and extravagantly à-la-mode!', into the assembled company, chiefly to make fun of the snobbish fop Mr Lovel, who has been a plague to Evelina (399). Lovel, enraged at being confronted with what he is told is his likeness, strikes the monkey which then 'fastened his teeth to one of his ears'. Lovel, 'a dreadful object' with blood from his ear 'trickling down his cloaths', naturally objects to this treatment, but Mirvan is unapologetic: 'What argufies so many words?' said the unfeeling Captain, 'it is but a slit of the ear; it only looks as if you had been in the pillory.' 'Very true,' added Mrs. Selwyn, 'and who knows but it may acquire you the credit of being an anti-ministerial writer?' (401-2) Mrs Selwyn is usually a woman of tough good sense; it may be a surprise to find her as 'unfeeling' as Mirvan. Her taunt carries the altercation into the overtly political realm. We could already have gathered, when hearing that Mrs Selwyn 'had business at a pamphlet-shop', that she likes to keep abreast of the news (318). Recalling punishments administered earlier in the century to dissident journalists and pamphleteers like Defoe, she ironically transforms Lovel into a writer protesting against the government in the era of the American War. Lovel would be undergoing a form of martyrdom for his principles and utterances which would gain him (in some liberal eyes at least) 'credit'. In fact, Lovel, an ignorant Member of Parliament and fashion's slave, utters little of note (save malicious digs at supposed inferiors), and would never be capable of going against any ministry in power in any matter.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.035 | 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".