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Conclusion: The Afterlife of Romantic Subversive Suicide

2025· book-chapter· en· W7126228346 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Michelle Faubert

Bibliographic record

VenueEdinburgh University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShort Stories in Global Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRomanceRomanticismTrope (literature)Subject (documents)AfterlifeVictory

Abstract

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The conclusion to the monograph considers objections to the very idea of suicide as a victory through the lens of philosophers from the long eighteenth century to the present. Such philosophers as Immanuel Kant and Albert Camus query how choosing death can establish the successful rebellion of the suicide if the victorious subject ceases to exist. I address this concern with reference to the eternising nature of textuality in the literary trope of rebellious suicide and suicide as a means of defining subjecthood, as Achille Mbembe, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Blanchot discuss. Romanticism and Subversive Suicide ends with a consideration of how current changes in attitudes towards suicide in Western culture suggest that we might finally be moving beyond the long-standing reticence to discuss suicide and the one-dimensional view of it as significant only of insanity, both of which have plagued the issue from the Romantic period until recently. Changes in laws concerning euthanasia in Canada and expanded public debates about the topic in Britain suggest that the Romantic-era emphasis on suicide as a human right is, again, entering the cultural conversation.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
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: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.040

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.006
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.202
Teacher spread0.183 · 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
GenreOther

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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