Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real argues that Victorian novelistic realism is a product of the Victorians’ overarching desire, both cultural and ideological, for the real. What the book calls “realist fantasy” describes the way in which the conventions used to represent characters’ dreams, daydreams, and fantasies also shape the more general and generalized fantasy that constitutes each particular novel’s imagining of the real. In readings of George Eliot’s Adam Bede, Dickens’s Oliver Twist, Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge, Trollope’s Orley Farm, and Wilkie Collins’s Armadale, the book demonstrates that realism and fantasy in these novels are not opposed, but rather occupy the same space and are constructed via the same conventions. Refusing to distinguish their objects of knowledge from their objects of desire, the novels invite readers to do the same. The book’s contention that Victorian fiction builds on a general nineteenth-century desire for the real draws on the way the structure of Victorian ideologies—about, for example, domesticity, character, gender, nationality, and the possibility of objectivity—support the Althusserian and Lacanian account of ideology as an “imaginary relationship to the real conditions of existence,” with the term “imaginary” defined not as an escape from the real but rather as the real, insofar as that is the name given to the institutions and structures that invest ideology with the substance and solidity the Victorians prized.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.002 |
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".