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Record W2529113127 · doi:10.3138/ecf.29.2.241

Popular Fiction after Richardson

2016· article· en· W2529113127 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEighteenth-Century Fiction · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature: history, themes, analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVirtueIdeologyPlot (graphics)Power (physics)DystopiaConceptualizationKey (lock)DutySociologyHistoryAestheticsLiteraturePhilosophyArt historyArtLawEpistemologyPoliticsComputer sciencePolitical scienceTheology

Abstract

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This article examines the immediate legacy of Samuel Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison following its publication in late 1753 and early 1754, and the ways in which this work helped to shape the popular novels of the mid-1750s, 1760s, and early 1770s. As much as novels of this period drew upon Grandison for plot points, they responded to the grand ideological vision of Richardson’s final published fiction. I argue that Grandison offers a vision of personal virtue that functions as a greater, organizing social principle. Its ultimate expression is the stable community, bonded together through prosperous marriage and the power of personal example and superintendence. Richardson’s Sir Charles embodies a vision of the magnetically virtuous individual whose duty and pleasure it is to draw together the community—and perhaps even the nation. This conceptualization of virtue provides a key reference point for popular fiction after Richardson, whether it is imitated, repurposed, or openly mocked.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.494
Threshold uncertainty score0.992

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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 head0.011
GPT teacher head0.193
Teacher spread0.182 · 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