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Cultural Issues: Class Declasse

Description

Whenever a character has suffered a loss of social status, in particular those characters formerly connected with the prominent families of Jefferson. For example, Dan Grinnup who is Louis Grenier's family. J. Burgers

Parent Term

  • Class

Sibling Terms

  • Ambition
  • Aristocratic posing
  • Birthright
  • Blood
  • British nobility
  • Caste system
  • Class conflict
  • Class consciousness
  • Dehumanization
  • Disruption
  • Elite
  • Equality
  • Etiquette
  • French nobility
  • Gentility
  • Homelessness
  • Lower class / riff-raff / canaille
  • Middle
  • noblesse-oblige
  • Planter vs farmer
  • Power
  • Pretension
  • Professional
  • Respectability
  • Snopesism
  • Social decline
  • Social mobility
  • Status, low
  • Town v. country/farm
  • White trash
  • Working

Tagged Events

The Reivers , 7 (Event)
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Work›Driving
Cultural Issues: Class›Declasse | Class›Homelessness
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Narrative›Parentheses
The Town, 233 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Emotional›Surprise | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Class›Declasse | Class›Respectability | Gender›Idealization | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Familial›Stepparent-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics