Girls in Bonds: Prehensile Place and the Domestic Gothic in L. M. Montgomery's Short Fiction
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the gothic literary tradition, the home is often a site of terror. While L. M. Montgomery's fiction for girls is known for its idyllic settings, the terrors of home are evoked in the landscape adjacent to the domestic sphere. Tracing the pattern of dangerous, retentive natural sites throughout her work, this essay explores how Montgomery adapts the gothic trope of the unhomely house to reflect the restrictive domestic choices available to adolescent girls in early twentieth-century Canada. Montgomery's underexplored magazine stories experiment with social critique, showcasing a society that, while ostensibly outgrowing distinctions of class and gender, transferred working-class girls on their arrival at womanhood from one powerless position to another. In particular, "The Waking of Helen" (1901), "The Magical Bond of the Sea" (1903), and "Fancy's Fool" (1943) demonstrate how the prehensile place in the landscape can be read as a "shadow home," a device used to interrogate the institutions of marriage and the family.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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) | 0.000 | 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".