Cultural Issues: Modernity Changing customs

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Absalom, Absalom!, 18 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Heat | Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Quietness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Day›Sunday
Actions: Domestic›Child care | Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Movement›Buggy | Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Sensing the past | Verbal›Interruption | Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Alcohol | Class›Lower class / riff-raff / canaille | Health and Illness›Fever | Modernity›Changing customs | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Chaos/Order›Disorder | Memory›Sensory memory | Past›Past in present | Past›Past vs present | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Door | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Haunting | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial›Father-daughter | Marital›Separated
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Flags in the Dust, 13 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Spectral | Auditory›Bugle | Natural›Woods | Time of Day›Dawn | Time of Day›Midnight
Actions: Movement›Horse | Physical›Ambush | Violent›Shooting
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | War›Capture | War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs: Character›Courteous | Character›Recklessness | Objects›Anchovies | Objects›Coffee
Relationships: Institutional›Military
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Centaur | Figures of Speech›Simile | Genre Conventions›Romance / Romanticism
The Mansion, 115 (Event)
Environment: Public›Road
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Movement›Hitch-hiking
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Clothes›Overalls | Clothes›Shoes | Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Paving
Themes and Motifs: Community›Alienation
The Reivers , 19 (Event)
Environment: Place›Hunting camps | Place›Railroad log line | Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Hunting season
Actions: Movement›Train | Movement›Wagon
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Ritual | Land-Use›Logging | Land-Use›Loss of wilderness | Modernity›Changing customs
Themes and Motifs: Time›Past
The Reivers , 31 (Event)
Environment: Place›Livery stable
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
The Reivers , 32 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Garage
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Second-person directed
The Reivers , 39 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Class›Elite | Entertainment›Motoring | Law›Motor vehicle | Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Relationships: Social›Homosocial rivalry
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 56 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Terror
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Formal | Modernity›Changing customs | Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Time›Just in time
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Revision | Narrative›Self-Reflective | Typography/Orthography›Italics
The Town, 11 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Car
Cultural Issues: Law›Regulation | Modernity›Changing customs | Politics›City government | Progress›Cars
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Objects›Car | Objects›Surrey
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Recurring Episodes›Jefferson's first car
The Town, 71 (Event)
Actions: Work›Blacksmith | Work›Mechanic
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs | Progress›Cars | Progress›New replacing old
The Unvanquished, 230 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Dining room | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Verbal›Planning | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Modernity›Changing customs
Themes and Motifs: Morals›Responsibility | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›New Orleans, Louisiana | Description›Eyes | Figures of Speech›People compared to animals