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Record W4403089928 · doi:10.3138/ecf.36.4.625

Nathaniel Lee and the Lucretian Sublime

2024· article· en· W4403089928 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Laura E. Crotty Alexander

Bibliographic record

VenueEighteenth-Century Fiction · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPoetry Analysis and Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSublimeArtArt historyAesthetics

Abstract

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The Restoration dramatist Nathaniel Lee demonstrates innovation in his dramatic works by engaging philosophical ideas on atoms and chaos that he read in translations of Lucretius’s De rerum natura ( On the Nature of Things). A friend and collaborator with John Dryden, Lee was popular with audiences but was frequently attacked by detractors, including John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, who criticized Lee’s ranting style. Lee’s characters, driven to extreme behaviour, feature in scenes of violent murder and suicide and offer a new kind of sublime feeling drawn from the violent Roman world that also influenced Lucretius’s philosophy. Lee connects madness to political chaos and focuses most of his plays on the sublime horror of tragic spectacle. The plays set reason against the passions, and Lee looks at the political consequences of rulers unable to control their emotional outbursts and desires to communicate a new understanding of the sublime.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
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 score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.041

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0070.015
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.193 · 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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