Confessions of the Opium-Eating Alice Liddell and Peter Pan
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores the topic of childhood substance abuse from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century and its representation in Victorian and Edwardian children´s literature. The two primary texts analyzed within this context are Lewis Carroll´s Alice in Wonderland and J. M. Barrie´s Peter Pan. By providing both a historical context, as well as consulting other academic readings of the narratives, this thesis aims to showcase how both Carroll and Barrie, through their characters of Alice and Peter, partake in the discourse regarding the consumption of narcotics among children. The analysis is based on the premise that food, beverages, fairy dust and medicine are metaphors for children´s narcotics, which were a popular measure during the Victorian era used in order to calm crying infants and children. It furthermore analyzes how said consumption of narcotics impacts the protagonists´ behaviors, claiming that it leads to behavioral dysfunction in the form of developing cases of dissociative identity disorder, which ultimately affects their ability to mature. Lastly, it examines the images of childhood that Carroll and Barrie represent through their characters, as well as providing information on the concept of childhood in itself and how Alice and Peter separate themselves from it. Based on a historical theoretical framework, it explains how the image of childhood has changed from the Romantic period to the Victorian and Edwardian eras, as a basis for analyzing Alice and Peters as characters. Though both primary texts are well explored within the academic field, this thesis adds a new perspective by viewing them in relation to the topic of narcotics, thus making a relevant contribution to the academic discourse surrounding children´s literature.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| 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".