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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). These 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 machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.044

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.014
Scholarly communication0.0050.006
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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.

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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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