Review: <i>American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race</i>, by Susan Gillman
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Book Review| December 01 2023 Review: American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race, by Susan Gillman Susan Gillman, American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 183. $95 cloth; $27.50 paper. Melissa Gniadek Melissa Gniadek University of Toronto Melissa Gniadek is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Professor Gniadek is the author of Oceans at Home: Maritime and Domestic Fictions in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on nineteenth-century U.S. engagement with the Pacific and literary engagement with histories of settler colonialism. Currently, Professor Gniadek is at work on a monograph concerned with unsettling temporalities of settlement in nineteenth-century American literature. She is also at work on another project about Herman Melville and trees in global contexts. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nineteenth-Century Literature (2023) 78 (3): 246–249. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.3.246 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Melissa Gniadek; Review: American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race, by Susan Gillman. Nineteenth-Century Literature 1 December 2023; 78 (3): 246–249. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2023.78.3.246 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNineteenth-Century Literature Search American Mediterraneans begins with what might seem the deceptively simple question “of why, in the Americas, so many bodies of water and land are so frequently compared to the European Mediterranean, both classical and modern” (p. xi). Susan Gillman immediately shows that engaging with this question requires a method of “speculative comparativism” that the term “American Mediterranean itself produces” (p. 15). The work of nineteenth-century Prussian scientist Alexander von Humboldt, who named the Caribbean Méditerranée de l’Amérique, serves as the starting point from which Gillman traces networks of texts that move across the scales of “space, time, and language,” doing “cultural work…that is always fundamentally, if not openly, racial” (p. xi). Reading across a “loose archive of works,” Gillman makes a compelling—indeed, necessary—case for the link between her subject and methodology, as she elaborates the inherently oceanic concept of her title using the transnational, hemispheric, and translation studies approaches... You do not currently have access to this content.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it