Female Favouritism, Orientalism, and the Bathing Closet in <i>Memoirs of Count Grammont</i>
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Abstract
This article reads an eroticized intrigue between two ladies-in-waiting in Anthony Hamilton's Jacobite secret history of the Restoration court in light of the ambivalent symbolism of its setting. The bathing closet points to a long tradition of same-sex intimacy at court that Hamilton admires; and yet in conjuring popular orientalist images of homoerotic subjection, that setting also suggests the diminishing impact of such affairs, as absolutist principles and practices lose their political and cultural force in England. Some scholars of early modern sexuality have emphasized the importance of Hamilton's gossipy narration of this episode and his sly treatment of the figure of the hermaphrodite. Attending to the bathing-closet setting, subtly altering our sense of the episode's tone, underscores the political valences of the female courtiers' bond and, more broadly, highlights the value of female favouritism as a category of analysis for the sexual historiography of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
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.
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