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Record W2500114837 · doi:10.1057/9780230595132_3

Cult or Cull?: Peter Pan and Childhood in the Edwardian Age

2009· book-chapter· en· W2500114837 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Karen L. McGavock

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2009
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicThemes in Literature Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCultHistoryAncient history

Abstract

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Peter Pan is regarded as being at the forefront of the Edwardian cult of childhood (White and Tarr 51), having 'initiated or played a larger part than any other work in initiating a fashion for "fairy" literature and illustration in the Edwardian nursery' (Carpenter 170), and Peter Pan does symbolize the youth and vitality of the age. Yet this essay will reveal the deep irony of this statement through exploring the ways in which James Matthew Barrie deconstructs or 'culls' childhood, challenging the conventional representation of children in the Edwardian era and undermining the sentimental construction of childhood promulgated in merchandise of the day. Although Barrie is often deemed to have created the epitome of childhood in Peter Pan, consideration will be made of ways in which Peter Pan can be regarded as a catalyst for change in the representation of childhood. The extent to which Peter Pan, therefore, 'force [s] us to challenge the most prevalent ideology of turn-of-the-century child-adult relations' will be explored (Coats 4).KeywordsBook TradeOriginal SinnerConsumer SocietyChild AudienceStage DirectionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.895
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.203 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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Published2009
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