Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this article, I read Henry Fielding’s jokes about Sophia’s muff in Tom Jones (1749) in relation to the novel’s historical context: the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. I complicate earlier readings by scholars who have argued that the government of Sophia is an allegory for the government of the nation. I trace how the embedded it-narrative of the muff figures Sophia’s marriage contract as an analogy for the social contract, one that considers whether govern ment should be decided by paternal authority or consent of the governed. Sophia’s muff foregrounds this analogy and the novel’s political allegory because muffs, as references to vaginas, metonymize the body part that determined how monarchies, money, and property were transferred. By attending to the debate about political right around this metonym for sex right, I examine how Fielding’s muff jokes directly engage with the fundamental question posed by the Jacobite rebellions: which family had a better right to inherit the crown, the Stuarts or the Hanovers?
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".