Pagan Affectations and Archaecological Agencies in the Later Works of Richard Jefferies
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Abstract
Abstract: This paper considers Richard Jefferies's later works, such as Wood Magic (1881), The Story of My Heart (1882), Amaryllis at the Fair (1887), and After London (1885), as sites wherein archaeology, ecological thinking, and pagan revivalism converge. I argue that we attain a nuanced reading of the convergence between archaeology, ecology, and affect in Jefferies by considering the ways in which he affiliates with paganism. Attending to the ways Jefferies deploys themes common to this pagan revivalism contributes to recent critical treatments of his place within Victorian ecological thought and literatures of the Anthropocene. I begin by establishing key themes of the Victorian pagan revival and Victorian archaeological discourses, then I elaborate how Jefferies imaginatively conjures Britain's own prehistoric pagan past. My final section is devoted to analyzing how this paganism informs After London , with specific reference to what I will refer to as its archa ecologies : two ecosystems that condense geological time and amplify mutually informing human-ecological entanglements.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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.
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".