Troubled Legacies: Narrative and Inheritance. Ed. Allan Hepburn. Toronto, Buffalo & London : University of Toronto Press, 2007. viii + 298 pp. 32.00. ISBN 978-0-8020-9110-9
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the introductory essay to this collection, Allan Hepburn argues that questions of property, inheritance, transmission and dispossession, brought into focus by the making of wills, reveal the interplay of literary and legal interests in the novel over the past two centuries. The ten essays which follow explore this claim, typically ranging beyond the narrower question of the formal bequest of property and title to examine the inheritance of cultural traditions (or, as in Bradley Clissold's essay on Joyce's Portrait of the Artist, a self-chosen disinheritance), class competition in the form of a struggle between legitimate and illegitimate heirs (Carol Margaret Davison on Jekyll and Hyde), the complex of meanings – to do with nation, memory, culture, responsibility – which gather around the idea of racial inheritance in Daniel Deronda (Natalie Rose), and the effect on twentieth-century inheritance plots of gender and sexuality (Maria DiBattista on Elizabeth Bowen, Hepburn on Brideshead Revisited, and Jason Polley on John Banville). In extending the idea of legal inheritance into these more metaphorical reaches, the volume necessarily loses some coherence; the corollary of this, however, is that in these intelligent, engaging and clearly written essays, Hepburn and his contributors make a rich and multi-faceted contribution to an increasingly lively debate about the links between literature and the law.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.031 | 0.005 |
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".