Dream and trance: Gaskell's <i>North and South</i> as a “condition-of-consciousness” novel
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Abstract
One of my mes is, I do believe, a true Christian – (only people call her socialist and communist), another of my mes is a wife and mother, and highly delighted at the delight of everyone else in the house … Now that's my “social” self I suppose. Then again I've another self with a full taste for beauty and convenience whh is pleased on its own account. How am I to reconcile all these warring members? I try to drownmyself (my first self ,) by saying it's Wm who is to decide on all these things and his feeling it right ought to be my rule, And so it is – only that does not quite do. Gaskell to Eliza Fox 1850 As a social problem novel, or a novel of industrial life, North and South has traditionally received much critical attention for its purchase on questions of political economy and the relations of labor and capital. It is also, I will argue in this chapter, a novel with a sustained focus on interiority and consciousness. From the opening pages, where Margaret Hale, now a stately girl of eighteen and about to leave her aunt's home, recalls her early “wild passion of grief” at being separated from her parents, the narrative pays close attention to painful feelings – their expression, censorship and transformative potential. More specifically, North and South is interested in the effect of very powerful feelings on psychic functioning and in the haunting aftermath of intense emotional experience.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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".