Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, London, Chapman and Hall, 1910, E. J. Sullivan and Me
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Using a posthumous illustrated 1910 edition of The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle, a deeply personal and heavily inflected history that was first published in 1837, the article considers the contributions to that history of the graphic artist E. J. Sullivan. The visual imagery contained within the two volumes of the history book reveals the artist to be someone of independent spirit with his own creative contributions to make to certain issues raised by Carlyle, particularly those of court corruption and of mob violence during The Terror. Sullivan’s use of symbols echoes something of Carlyle’s approach to the writing of history with further layers of interpretation and reception arising from the political, social and artistic contexts of England in 1910. Here the pictures are, furthermore, not subservient to the text for the reader/viewer is not merely being invited to consider the appropriateness of what has been depicted; rather I hope to show further how the experience of history can accrue performatively as well as over time.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.003 |
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".