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Abstract
London is the main setting for several of Collins's novels, and in this chapter we will examine three of the most striking. These texts — Basil (1852), Hide and Seek (1854), and The Woman in White (1860) — can also be taken as representative of Collins's novelistic work in the first decade of his career, demonstrating his early attempts to push the boundaries of what was deemed 'proper' to mid-Victorian readers and reviewers. Both Basil and Hide and Seek can loosely be classified as bildungsromans (novels of personal development), but they are also mystery novels involving the uncovering of family secrets. The Woman in White is what we would today recognize as a detective story or thriller, but like Basil it uses some of the tropes of the novel of horror to expose the darker side of 1850s England. The 'great world of London' (DS, 220) in which each of these novels is principally set was also where Collins lived and worked for most of his life. Born in New Cavendish Street, Marylebone, and dying less than quarter of a mile away at 82 Wimpole Street, he rarely resided more than a few steps from the south-west corner of Regent's Park. London was, he always felt, his natural habitat, a place where, in 'the mighty vitality of the great city' (B, 49), his writing career could best develop.KeywordsSexual AttractionLunatic AsylumDetective StoryCompulsory HeterosexualityFamily SecretThese 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 imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".