1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England
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Abstract
Refreshingly liberated from both a theoretical imperative and any requisite jargon, Helen Wilcox's 1611 (not unlike James Shapiro's Shakespeare-centric 1599) frames itself instead around the textual culture produced during a single year in Jacobean London, freely drawing connections between the printed texts and various performances that, taken together, ostensibly characterize the historical zeitgeist.Largely overlooking the technical complexities of composition, manuscript circulation, revision, printing, performance, and so forth, Wilcox focuses on shared publication dates to establish connections between the materials she reviews.While scrutinizing the year's productions in roughly chronological order, starting with Jonson's New Year's Day court masque Oberon and concluding with Shakespeare's The Tempest, 1611 insists on the imbricative character of early modern textual culture-how the texts gathered under the rubric of 1611 reflect, in miniature, broad cultural concerns about representations of authority, gender, and the power of the word.In her first chapter, Wilcox reviews the Jacobean court's celebration of the New Year via Ben Jonson's masque Oberon and its historical specificity, subsequently turning to Jonson's February offering, Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, and its concern for language itself as potential obstacle or source of freedom.The chapter concludes by considering the cultural importance of music in 1611-its many locations, patrons, and publications.Chapter 2 analyzes the significance of Aemelia Lanyer's 1611 Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum in relation to the culture's idealization of female silence, discussing the poet's appropriation of scripture in her "Apologie" for Eve, and her circulation of perhaps the first ever printed country-house poem, "The Description of Cooke-ham." Wilcox emphasizes the irony of Lanyer's poetic achievements in light of her work's emblematizing the ongoing injustices against women like the Countess of Cumberland, her young daughter Anne Clifford, and King James's cousin, Lady Arabella Stuart.1611's third chapter treats the topic of travel, both in reality as well as in the imagination of playwrights and poets, beginning with how the idiosyncratic Coryats Crudities capitalizes on a growing market for travel writing focused on tourism rather than trade, or accumulated observation rather
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 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".