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Record W4237976326 · doi:10.3138/ecf.22.3.399

(Love) Letters: Madeleine de Scudéry and the Epistolary Impulse

2010· article· en· W4237976326 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Joan DeJean

Bibliographic record

VenueEighteenth-Century Fiction · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical and Literary Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSalonArtSubject (documents)FeelingMuralArt historyHistoryPhilosophyPaintingComputer science

Abstract

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In the fall of 1653, Madeleine de Scudéry had just completed Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus and not yet begun Clélie, histoire romaine. Along with several members of her Paris salon she took advantage of the first ever intra-mural mail system, inaugurated in August 1653: they exchanged letters in which they discussed everything from their feelings for each other to the topics for the next salon, known as “le samedi.” Scudéry and Paul Pellisson subsequently collected these letters and had them copied and bound to form a manuscript. The nineteenth-century owner of the manuscript titled it Chroniques des samedis, which has long encouraged scholars to think of it as merely the account of the salon meetings. Chroniques is much more than that, as it portrays in letters Scudéry's search for her next novel—its subject and especially its form—as well as displaying her creating fictions in letter form. The new penny post only operated for about three months, yet Scudéry's manuscript reveals the understanding that this form of communication gave her of the interface between material culture and literary culture, between postal systems and epistolarity.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.669
Threshold uncertainty score0.636

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.006
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.225 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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