Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Although literary history tends to hold up The Importance of Being Earnest as Oscar Wilde’s quintessential play, Wilde’s own favourite among his comedies was An Ideal Husband. Its original performance having been curtailed by the scandal surrounding the 1895 trials, An Ideal Husband appeared in print only in 1899. Painstakingly revised, it was also the last book Wilde published during his lifetime. As such, it affords a unique vantage for examining Wilde’s literary career and legacy. This chapter attends to the witty comedy’s entanglement with its author’s real-life tragedy, and argues that the play’s very structure, just as much as the emotional lives of its characters, is propelled by a palpable anxiety over the loss of social capital—and the cascading consequences of such a loss. By exploring the multiple facets of such dramatically generative anxiety, moreover, this chapter finds in that emotion the fuel for the play’s argument against idealism as a form of judgemental intolerance. In a play organized by the attachment of affect to information—to the guilt that travels with secrets—that argument finally locates itself in the transformation of Gertrude Chiltern’s Puritanism into something more humane, for it is only the possibility of being compromised that leads her to reassess her own narrow-mindedness. The stakes of this transformation become clear when the play is aligned with detective fiction in a comparison with Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Second Stain’, a Sherlock Holmes story whose plot bears surprising and illuminating similarities to Wilde’s play.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.004 |
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".