Rewriting Radicalism: Wollstonecraft in Burney's <i>The Wanderer</i>
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Abstract
This article reconsiders the connection between Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman and Frances Burney's The Wanderer, arguing that reading the two texts in tandem reveals close affinities as well as strategic (as opposed to ideological) differences. While The Wanderer rather crudely parodies Wollstonecraft's revolutionary fervour in the character of Elinor Joddrel, it also thematizes and advances, in subterranean ways, the specific feminist agenda proposed in Wollstonecraft's posthumous novel. The anti-heroine embodies Wollstonecraft's scandalous life and opinions, and the social critique articulated in her novel weaves through the heroine's trajectory, replicated and revised so that the wrongs inflicted upon the problematic Maria re-emerge as the difficulties endured by the estimable Juliet. Fracturing Wollstonecraft into historical persona and text, The Wanderer enacts a strategy of domesticating and assimilating into genteel society the progressive ideology of this difficult and polarizing icon of revolutionary romanticism. Locating Juliet's travails within the historical context of the French Revolution, Burney's depiction of a woman almost literally “Bastilled” by marriage aims to demonstrate that oppressive patriarchal practices contravene an English sense of justice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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".