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Record W4416376376 · doi:10.1017/9781009554435.011

The Historical Novel and Nineteenth-Century Empire

2025· book-chapter· W4416376376 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ian Duncan

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Language
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicJoseph Conrad and Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsEmpireImperial unit systemRomanceIdeologyAllegianceHistoriography

Abstract

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Walter Scott’s “classical form of the historical novel” establishes a plot of modern national formation through political absorption into a greater imperial union through the dialectical clash of opposing forces. Relocating agency from individual persons to an impersonal historical process, the novel generates soft or weak protagonists who waver between political allegiance and – with the biologization of historical purpose later in the nineteenth century – between dispositions of gender, sex, and race. The historical novel is refitted for Victorian imperial romance and its ideological program of “Greater Britain,” a global union of English-speaking peoples, in Charles Kingsley’s Westward Ho! Historical novels written in the imperial peripheries – in Quebec and Bengal – adapt the “Greater Britain” plot and destabilize it from within. Aubert de Gaspé’s Les anciens Canadiens justifies the conquest of New France through an equivalence between French settlers and Scottish Highlanders, which is derailed by a third group the Indians, the actual natives whose elimination secures the imperial dispensation. In Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Anandamath , an eighteenth-century Hindu rebellion against Mughal overlords prepares the way for the future ascendancy of an independent Indian nation in which synthesis with imperial Britain is only a passing stage.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.943
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.180
Teacher spread0.161 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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