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Record W4313026936 · doi:10.1353/vpr.2022.0002

Abetting "Literary Sins": The Dickensian and the Drood Phenomenon

2022· article· en· W4313026936 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Kari Daly

Bibliographic record

VenueVictorian periodicals review · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration, Policy, and Dickens Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCriticismHistoryPhenomenonLiteratureClassicsPhilosophyArtEpistemology

Abstract

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This essay examines why the years between 1905 and 1915 generated a massive amount of commentary concerning Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Building on Don Richard Cox's influential bibliography of the novel's reception, I suggest that the Dickens Fellowship's journal, the Dickensian, actively cultivated a new audience of Dickens readers through its careful curation of Droodiana. By pursuing inclusive policies that attracted professionals, lay readers, and academics alike, the Dickensian helped resuscitate a novel that might otherwise have been forgotten. Such an approach might be mimicked today, I argue, to help generate canons of criticism for lost Victorian works.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.069

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0120.049
Scholarly communication0.0110.007
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.275 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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