Island Homemaking: Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Crusoes and the Robinsonade Tradition
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Abstract
[para. 1]: “It is perhaps not surprising that one of the earliest Canadian books for young readers tells the story of a group of children of European settlers who survive the elements and the hostilities of the Native people and build a home for themselves in the wilderness. While Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Crusoes (1852) is an early entry in the tradition of Canadian wilderness survival narratives, it is also, asits title suggests, part of a three-centuries-old international and persistent literary tradition of the “robinsonade.” This narrative form, as well as the Daniel Defoe novel from which it derives, is generally associated with tales of adventure and exploration. As such, they have participated in what has conventionally been understood as the masculine-coded ide-ology of colonial adventure and conquest. They are, however, not just stories about discovering strange and exotic places, but about making these places “home” for their adventuring protagonists. In other words, they are stories that also include a strong focus on the usually feminine-coded practices and ideology of domesticity. In this chapter, I am interested in examining how these seemingly contradictory ideological formations have intersected and even sustained each other in both Traill’s robinsonade and in examples from the tradition that preceded it. A brief look at this literary/cultural tradition and its ideological implications seems like the natural place to start such a discussion.”
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.039 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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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