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The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real

2016· book· en· W4233588488 on OpenAlex
Audrey Jaffe

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicModernist Literature and Criticism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsThe ImaginaryIdeologyFantasyRealismLiteratureAestheticsObjectivity (philosophy)ArtPhilosophyPsychoanalysisEpistemologyPsychologyLawPoliticsPolitical science

Abstract

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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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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.832
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.206
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2016
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