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Sensation fiction

2015· other· en· W4250737610 on OpenAlexaff
Lisa Surridge

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature · 2015
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGothic Literature and Media Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUncannyRealismEmbodied cognitionArtLiteratureSensibilityAestheticsSensationHistoryPsychologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Featuring crimes such as murder, bigamy, or adultery in seemingly proper middle‐class homes, the sensation novel of the 1860s and early 1870s tantalized readers with clues and leads of false identities, hidden pasts, and uncanny doubles. Appalled Victorian critics accused sensational writers such as Wilkie Collins, Ellen Wood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ellen Wood of catering to popular appetite, preaching to the nerves, undermining morality, and aligning the reading matter of the kitchen with that of the drawing room. Recent critics, however, have explored the sensation novel as a popular form that exploited contemporary fascination with a nervous, embodied reader, self‐conscious about the mass print marketplace; that contained a clash between realism and sensational effects; that mastered a combination of visual and verbal vocabulary; that disrupted Victorian boundaries of race, class, gender, and disability; that wielded influence on the novels of the fin de siècle; and that was redolent of emergent modernism.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.071
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.269
Teacher spread0.260 · 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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