Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parent Description
783 Etiquette Race
3639 Etiquette Class
4673 European History
5373 European Revolutions of 1848 History
4480 Evaluate exchange value Economy
660 Evidence Law
299 Evil Slavery
3893 Exams / tests Education
808 Execution Law
762 Exoticism Global
5760 Expansion Economy

This is the net effect of economic rationalization the expansion of businesses. This keyword was created with Flem's takeover of Frenchman's Bend and Jefferson in mind. JB

3894 Expelled / expulsion Education
820 Expensive Clothes
3616 Expensive and/or fancy clothes Clothes
3475 Experience Sexuality
4979 Exploitative Politics
1660 Explorers History
2959 Extortion Crime
850 Extra-marital Sexuality
1157 Eye for an eye Law

I opted for the more familiar phrase over "Talionic code of justice" to facilitate searching. JW

1772 Eyewitness Law
3867 Factory Progress
313 Family Slavery
4851 Family role Identity, Personal
5153 Fanaticism Religion
2915 Fancy Clothes
1447 Fantasy Mass Media

The fantasies generated in viewers, readers, or listeners by the mass media. What in "Dry September," in reference to Hollywood cinema, Faulkner calls "the silver dream." BR

3753 Fantasy Sexuality
1010 Farming Labor
3634 Farming Agriculture
1154 Farming life Agriculture
5552 Fear of sex Sexuality
5787 Fecundity Sexuality
5461 Federal Bureau of Investigation Government
1735 Federal laws and regulations Government
5555 Federal vs state crime Law
1360 Female Sexuality
3991 Female body Gender
2516 Female education Education
5263 Female in peril Gender
1477 Female intuition Gender

This is any event in which women are able to "intuit" gender relationships. The case in point is in My Grandmother Millard where Granny intuits the budding relationship between Melisandre and Cousin Phillip. Although the projection is certainly Faulkner's, it ties into broader nineteenth and twentieth century patriarchal notions of feminine intuition. Joost Burgers

3481 Female stereotype Gender
4006 Feminine man Gender
639 Femininity Gender
3355 Ferris wheel Entertainment
5604 Fetishism Sexuality
1442 Fever Health and Illness
307 Field slaves vs house slaves Slavery
4129 Financial independence Identity, Personal
1983 Firearms Law

Any formal or informal practices regarding firearms that are functionally law, whether these practices are recognized in a court or not. For example, the assumption that no one in Maury Priest's workplace would bring a gun in the Reivers or the shop owner who refuses to sells Mink ammunition in the Mansion. This definition also includes legal violations of laws surrounding firearms. JB

3543 Fireworks Entertainment
3129 First sexual encounter or experience Sexuality

There did not seem to be a keyword for one's first time having sex, so I added this. JBP

3864 Fishing contest Hunting and Fishing
3596 Flannel Clothes
4438 Flapper Gender
4272 Flight school Education
4672 Fluidity Gender
1505 Fog of War War
5103 Folk superstition Religion
467 Food (First level term)
2239 Football Entertainment
280 Forced migration Slavery
3936 Foreigners Nationality
596 Forgery Crime
4820 Forgiveness Religion
1516 Formal Clothes
1672 Founding fathers History
1909 Fratricide Crime
5316 Fraud Crime

This type of fraud is distinct from action: moral :: fraud in the sense that there are legal consequences. The specific example here is from "Death Drag" where Ginsfarb has a plane that is unlicensed and purchased a license from another plane that was allowed to fly thereby "compound[ing] another felony" (194). JHB

4453 Free Will Religion
315 Freedom Slavery
5188 French Nationality
4908 French nobility Class
2899 Friendly interaction Race

Any time in the text during which different races meet in the same space and have a friendly, uncharged interaction. The specific example is the horse race in The Reivers.

2000 Frock coat Clothes
3018 Frontier justice Law
2413 Frontier outlawry History
1694 Frontier times Progress
1708 Frontier to civilization Progress
1337 Frustration Sexuality
283 Fugitive Slavery
1632 Funeral Ritual
2199 Funeral arrangements Ritual
3601 Fur coat / suit Clothes
5335 Furnish bill Agriculture
3225 G.I. Bill Education
3743 Galley slave Slavery
4270 Gallic Ethnicity
577 Gambling Economy
1746 Gambling Crime
4066 Garment female Clothes
2826 Garter Clothes
3562 Gastrointestinal discomfort Health and Illness
240 Gender (First level term)
2933 Gendered Violence

A violent action in which the gender dynamic plays a salient feature. The specific example is Boon hitting Miss Corrie in The Reivers. JB

2042 Genealogy Race

Any time a character's possible racial ancestries is germane to the text. J. Burgers

4973 Generation gap Age
590 Generational reform Government
2989 Gentility Class
5371 Gentleman Gender

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