Moving Fortunes: Caribbean Women’s Marriage, Mobility, and Money in the Novel of Sentiment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A focus on the marriages of Caribbean heiresses to Englishmen in the novel of sentiment sheds light on a broader cultural impulse to discharge the tension between imperial acquisitiveness and sentimental culture. In these novels, Caribbean wealth is easily assimilated into English society, but the woman who provides a conduit to that wealth is contained outside of English domestic space. This exclusion of the Caribbean woman also excludes the stigma attached to the money’s origins in chattel slavery. Meanwhile, the plot attributes the woman’s exclusion to circumstances that are inevitable, thus licensing the novel to remove the reminder of the source of Caribbean wealth. Sarah Scott’s The History of Sir George Ellison (1766), the anonymous The Woman of Colour (1808), and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) illustrate this trajectory. Focusing on this plot uncovers the novel of sentiment’s attempt to resolve the tension between an imperial culture’s desire to benefit from Caribbean colonization and a sentimental culture’s desire to see itself as sympathetic to others’ suffering.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".