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There's no place like "home" : displacement, domestic space, and ecological consciousness in the work of Elizabeth Gaskell and Susanna Moodie

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Elise Mitchell

Bibliographic record

VenueConstellation (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi) · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEcocriticism and Environmental Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEcocriticismConversationIdentity (music)DialecticConsciousnessAestheticsRomanceSociologyNarrativePsychoanalysisLiteraturePhilosophyEpistemologyArtPsychology
DOInot available

Abstract

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This doctoral dissertation, There’s No Place Like “Home”: Displacement, Domestic Space, and Ecological Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and Canadian Women’s Writing, offers a reconsideration of Martin Heidegger’s controversial concepts of dwelling and Being (Dasein) in ecocriticism, and, subsequently a rereading of nineteenth century women’s writing through an ecocritical lens. It examines the construction of domestic space in relation to the nonhuman through the work of Susanna Moodie and Elizabeth Gaskell. It posits that their writing addresses the identity and nature of the nonhuman in a way that is consistent with certain aspects of contemporary ecocriticism. First, the theoretical framework of this study brings Dasein into conversation with two theorists that question a hermetic, place-oriented domesticity. Gaston Bachelard’s indoor-outdoor dialectic highlights the dependence of the built environment’s identity on the nonhuman, while Susan Fraiman’s shelter writing de-genders the creation of domestic space and resituates it at the margins of human experience. The result of this conversation is a model of analysis that juxtaposes an uncomfortable Dasein that encompasses the unlimited and unknowable with the human desire for control and contact with the nonhuman. \nThe ecocritical dimension of Moodie and Gaskell is their marginality, both social and geographical. Their writing about domesticity and home encompasses both a yearning towards and a subversion of Victorian middle-class ideals. The discomfort of this conflicting mindset means that the domestic is decentred and displaced; their coming-of-age narratives mean seeing beyond dilute Romantic conceptualizations of “Nature” and “Home” but not abandoning them completely. A home that facilitates dwelling—a shelter, in other words—must be imperfect and precarious, balancing Victorian middle-class ideals with a mutually recognized relationship with the nonhuman world. A shelter’s interstitial spaces permit the interaction and relationships between human and nonhuman without resorting to fixed identities. Displacement, especially transcontinental displacement in the case of Susanna Moodie, amplifies the experience of uncomfortable human/nonhuman interaction, and thus, permits an ecologically conscious coexistence rather than a domination of the land. The vague, unquestioned “Home” cannot be ecological, then, just as an unquestioned “Nature” that posits a fundamental connection to the land cannot. Moodie and Gaskell demonstrate that “Home” is an illusion, but dwelling in shelter is not. \n \nNotre thèse de doctorat s’intitule There’s No Place Like “Home”: Displacement, Domestic Space, and Ecological Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and Canadian Women’s Writing. L’objectif de cette thèse consistera, tout d’abord, à une relecture des concepts controversés de l’habitation (dwelling) et de l’existence (Dasein) de Martin Heidegger et, par la suite, à une redéfinition de l’espace domestique du dix-neuvième siècle à l’aide de la pensée écocritique. En concomitance, il s’agit aussi d’effectuer une \nlecture renouvelée et novatrice des oeuvres des écrivaines anglo-saxonne et canadienne-anglaise Elizabeth Gaskell et Susanna Moodie, particulièrement par rapport à la relation ténue et complexe entre l’espace domestique et le non-humain que contiennent ces oeuvres, qui convoquent précisément et \nétonnamment certains aspects de l’écocritique contemporaine. \nTout d’abord, le modèle théorique met l’habitation en conversation avec deux théories qui questionnent une domesticité hermétique et une orientation du lieu. La dialectique de l’intérieur et de l’extérieur de Gaston Bachelard insiste sur le fait que l’environnement construit dépend fortement du non-humain, tandis que le « shelter writing » de Susan Fraiman « dé-genre » la création de l’espace domestique et le resitue aux marges de l’expérience humaine. Le résultat de cette conversation théorique nous a menés à juxtaposer ainsi un Dasein inconfortable, comprenant l’illimité et l’innommable, à un désir humain pour le contact et le contrôle du non-humain. \nLa dimension écocritique de Moodie et de Gaskell est leur marginalité, marginalité à la fois sociale et géographique. Leurs écrits domestiques sont élégiaques, tout en questionnant également les idéaux de la classe moyenne victorienne. L’inconfort de cette mentalité conflictuelle produit une domesticité décentrée; les récits du passage à l’âge adulte incorporent une vision qui doit aller au-delà des conceptualisations du chez-soi et de la nature romantiques et diluées, sans toutefois les délaisser totalement. Un chez-soi qui facilite l’habitation un « shelter » doit ainsi être imparfait et précaire, équilibré entre les idéaux de la classe moyenne victorienne et une relation, mutuellement reconnue, avec le non-humain. Les espaces interstitiels d’un « shelter » permettent l’interaction entre humain et non-humain sans fixer d’identité ou d’idéal précis. De plus, le dépaysement, surtout le dépaysement transcontinental, amplifie l’expérience d’une interaction inconfortable entre humain et non-humain. Ultimement, le chez-soi qui n’est pas questionné ne peut pas être écologique et une nature qui insiste sur une connexion \nfondamentale entre l’humain et la terre ne peut pas l’être davantage. Il faut, comme on le voit dans les oeuvres de Moodie et de Gaskell, un déplacement et une admission de la faillibilité de l’être humain ainsi que la reconnaissance de l’autonomie du non-humain.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
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: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.817
Threshold uncertainty score0.364

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0150.027
Scholarly communication0.0070.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.003
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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.169
Teacher spread0.162 · 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
GenreEmpirical

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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