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Record W2502473390 · doi:10.1017/ccol0521850347.003

<i>Evelina</i> and <i>Cecilia</i>

2007· book-chapter· he· W2502473390 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2007
Typebook-chapter
Languagehe
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature: history, themes, analysis
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativePower (physics)Theme (computing)FeelingDaughterPortraitArtLiteratureHistoryAestheticsArt historyPsychologyLawPolitical scienceSocial psychology

Abstract

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With the publication of Evelina and Cecilia, women's novel-writing gained a higher level of critical esteem than it had ever attained before. The two works, separated only by four crowded years during which Burney also wrote and relinquished her first play, show how rapid was the development of the novelist's technique. From the epistolary narrative of Evelina, with its two strands of the heroine's experiences in contemporary society and her confrontation with a troubled family history, Burney moved to a flexible third-person narrative for the more ambitious Cecilia. Encompassing a wider social range than Evelina while unifying its gallery of satirical portraits under an overarching philosophical concern with the traditional philosophical 'choice of life' theme, Cecilia also managed, through the innovative use of free indirect discourse, to give a closer rendition than the earlier novel of its heroine's thoughts and feelings. Different though the two novels are, they share the same fundamental concerns. Both address the issue of what sort of place a young woman can take, what sort of power she may wield, within the patriarchally organised society of late eighteenth-century England. Evelina, wrongly denied the status of legitimate daughter, must be reunited with her father before she can fully take her place in society. Cecilia, inheriting from her uncle only on condition that her husband give up his family name for hers, finds that it would cost too much to remain an heiress. For both heroines the paternal name is at once a source of power and of difficulty.

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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), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.921
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
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 head0.033
GPT teacher head0.192
Teacher spread0.160 · 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