On “Not Returning Time”: Melancholic Resignation in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market
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Abstract
Scholars have widely asserted that Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market (1862) is an emancipatory narrative of redemption, in which two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, are tempted initially by Goblin men selling their wares in a traveling market. After succumbing to the Goblin cries, the moribund Laura needs to be saved by her sister, who braves the volatile and seductive marketplace to procure the fruit on Laura’s behalf. At the poem’s conclusion, Laura is restored to health, and the two are redeemed through domestic motherhood. Heather McAlpine argues that the sisters pursue “healthy domestic work” (121) as the antidote for consuming the fruit of the goblins. While the poem does conclude with the two women in an idyllic domestic space, Rossetti’s poetics of space and time undermine the anticipated peripeteia of the women’s redemption. My thesis endeavours to more closely examine the poem’s trajectory from the pastoral depiction of the matriarchal domestic space to an ending that reflects Rossetti’s resignation and melancholy. Discipline: English Honours Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel Martin
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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.
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".