Bibliographic record
Abstract
Amelia Opie was a Romantic era writer, engaged in revolutionary politics, who in midlife, became a devout Quaker, and gave up the publishing of fiction. Many scholars and contemporaries of Opie have commented on her sudden religious conversion, and suggested that Opie was engaged in a complicated “conscious struggle to mediate an identity which could include both her talents as a writer and her personal faith (“Introduction” LII). The Quaker faith had strict rules against the publishing of fiction, and a Quaker should never be engaged in creative authorship. Consequently, Opie’s poetry written after her turn to Quakerism forms an interesting area, and raises questions about her negotiation of artistic and religious identities. Digital methods of statistical analysis were used to examine the shifts in her poetry personal correspondence, particularly with regards to Opie’s attitudes towards mourning and religious faith were examined. Indications were that Opie used religion as consolation in her elegies as well as her life. However, a closer examination of her poetry and letters reveal that Opie was somewhat uneasy with her reliance on Christian faith, negotiating between that and her worldly concerns, rather than being wholly comforted by God. In the case of her father Opie found her faith to be inadequate, showing that only a whole acceptance allows for proper mourning. Although a digital analysis indicates that Opie used her faith as consolation for suffering, a closer reading suggests that this process was complex that her faith was ultimately unable to provide an adequate substitute.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.003 |
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".