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Record W2500019533 · doi:10.1017/ccol0521850347.008

Burney and gender

2007· book-chapter· en· W2500019533 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2007
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicLiterature Analysis and Criticism
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTributeCriticismLiteratureArtReputationHistoryArt historyLawPolitical science

Abstract

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The first of only two occasions on which Jane Austen sanctioned the appearance of her name in print was in the subscription list to Burney's Camilla - a significant tribute by the aspirant 'Miss J. Austen, Steventon' to the woman novelist whose work was, by 1796, widely acknowledged to be 'without a competitor' or, if comparisons were made, to equal that of Richardson and Henry Fielding. When Austen paid tribute to Burney again, more famously, in her defence of novels in Northanger Abbey, she named Cecilia and Camilla, together with Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (1801), as examples of works 'in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language' (I, ch. v). For modern readers, at least until twentieth-century feminist criticism rediscovered and properly reinstated women writers, Austen herself was the earliest female novelist to be allowed into the literary canon. But for contemporaries, it was Burney who first broke through the prejudices of gender and genre - her own, as well as those of her reviewers - to achieve unequivocal canonical status as a practitioner of the new form of the novel. Beginning with the acclaim which greeted the anonymous publication of Evelina in 1778, Burney's career and reputation and the emergent, but still fragile, respectability of the novel at the end of the eighteenth century are crucially interdependent. Indeed, Austen's assertive celebration of fiction not only as displaying 'the greatest powers of the mind', but also as a form whose greatest living exemplars are women, was possible largely because of the critical respect won by Burney.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.966
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
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)0.0000.000

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 head0.044
GPT teacher head0.244
Teacher spread0.200 · 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