Bibliographic record
Abstract
Following the revival of Marivaux’s La Dispute in 1973, drama critics have often ignored its colonial subtext. In this article, I argue that Marivaux’s island plays— L’Île des esclaves (1725) , L’Île de la raison (1727), La Nouvelle colonie (1729, revised and published as La Colonie in 1750)—along with his experimental La Dispute (1744) implicitly refer to French Atlantic colonies. By analyzing these plays in dialogue with the Code Noir, the laws governing French forms of slavery, I unearth two colonial regimes within Marivaux’s work. The 1720s plays transform a maroon economy, wherein the enslaved disobey colonial rule, into a Christian moral economy, in which a sovereign treats the servants humanely, while the subaltern population obeys the master’s authority. Twenty years later, La Dispute imagines a colony that essentially and perhaps unwittingly parodies a slavery-based plantation economy, in which the cultivation of human vice reveals the vanity of racialized hierarchies. Through this study, I encourage practitioners and critics to engage with Marivaux’s colonial subtext.
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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".