Remarks on Richardson: Sarah Fielding and the Rational Reader
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Abstract
Sarah Fielding promoted rational reading practices through techniques that often differed from those used in the mid-eighteenth-century novel, particularly the contrary techniques employed by Samuel Richardson and her brother, Henry Fielding. Examining Fielding's Remarks on Clarissa and her co-authored “dramatic fable” The Cry, this essay argues that Fielding creates textual spaces where her readers can and should examine their similarities with imperfect objects. Through both character and form, Fielding provides a number of “hooks” into her central message, all designed to engage more than one type of reader. At the same time, Fielding's work provides commentary on the work of her friend and mentor Samuel Richardson: explicitly in Remarks on Clarissa and implicitly in The Cry, the latter of which engages with Richardson's final novel, Sir Charles Grandison, in ways that have not been noted until now.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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