Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article argues that, for better and for worse, the novel is still the eighteenth-century novel and goes on to investigate why that is so. Reviving John Richetti’s claim that we have outlived the “ideological needs” served by “realism and psychological verisimilitude,” the author asks what the persistence of this mode of fictionality implies about the ongoing need for such a conventionalized form. The author tests the idea advanced by Catherine Gallagher that fictional characters restore readers to a sense of ontological fullness. She then turns to Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747–1748) and Frances Ferguson’s recent analysis of the influence of shorthand transcription on Richardson to examine Ferguson’s claim that stenography (as a representational mode of “your thoughts and words in my hand”) is a distillation of free indirect style. Ferguson’s formulation leads the author to D.W. Winnicott’s psychoanalytic framework of holding and to the proposal that the purpose of the (still eighteenth-century) novel is to facilitate vital processes of disintegration through an experience of presence.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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 teacher head, 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".