Key Literary & Social Concepts: Patriarchy to Englishness

Patriarchy

Patriarchy is the treatment of women throughout the ages. It dictates their future and success in life. It not only defines how society functions but also how it controls women. Patriarchy is best defined as control by men. Women fight for rights and to survive without the power and domination of men. It has roots in Christianity and the family.

Noble Savage

Noble Savage is a literary device that affirms the basic tenet of the goodness of mankind.

Pathetic Fallacy

Pathetic Fallacy is a term used to describe the attribution of animate or human characteristics and feelings to inanimate objects of nature. It is said that these are 'false' descriptions of nature. This term is now commonly used to describe any developed or impassioned personification.

Romantic Irony

Romantic Irony is a voice that keeps hovering between self-pity and self-mockery. It is often found in Byron's Don Juan or between fictional illusion and the vision of the narrator as a manipulator.

Intertextuality

Intertextuality is the complex interrelationship between a text and other texts taken as basic to the creation or interpretation of the text.

Jingoism

Jingoism is extreme patriotism. In practice, it refers to the use of threats and force against other countries in order to safeguard a country's national interests.

The Woman Question

The Woman Question refers to a social change that questioned the fundamental roles of women in Britain in the 19th century. Issues included property rights, legal rights, and medical rights. Discussions took place in newspapers and intellectual circles. This phrase is used in connection with the social change in the later 19th century, which questioned the fundamental roles of women in Britain. Issues of suffrage, reproductive autonomy, property, legal, medical, and marriage rights were central to the debate.

Synesthesia

Synesthesia combines two words in order to realize the real sound of something (visual and sound senses).

Englishness

Englishness is an idea emerging in the Victorian Period related to the idea of colonization. The critical areas were class, gender, and nationality (religion, race, ethnicity). The British Empire went to civilize, and they had no resistance. They sent trade people and civil servants instead of sending an army. The civil servants (dependent on the crown) made people become and behave as English. Everything imported from England was considered fine (e.g., food).