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Protestant ethic and the novel

2015· other· en· W4248829744 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
George Levine

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature · 2015
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWeber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProtestant work ethicCapitalismProtestantismPeriod (music)SociologyAestheticsHistoryPhilosophyLawReligious studiesPolitical science

Abstract

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The Victorian novel, reflecting enormous economic changes, is preoccupied with money, and money almost always causes it both formal and moral complications. To understand these complications, it is useful to take as a guide Max Weber's theory as laid out in The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism , which paradoxically argues that religious otherworldliness was a powerful force in the development of capitalism. Realist fiction struggled to reconcile moral and religious purity with the working of the marketplace, and Victorian novelists tended to run into contradictions that their works cannot entirely resolve. Two of the most popular works of the period, Charlotte Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe and Dinah Mullock Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman , provide clear examples of such unresolved contradictions and formal failures and might be taken to represent the limits of Victorian fiction's difficulties of coming to terms with money in the new capitalist economy.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.583
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.272 · 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.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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