ENC 1102 Research Paper

General Keywords:

• Gender roles
• Gender norms
• Masculinity
• Femininity
• Social roles
• Patriarchy
• Domestic sphere

Historical and Thematic Keywords:

• 19th-century America
• Victorian gender roles
• Antebellum gender roles
• Industrial Revolution and gender
• Cult of domesticity
• Republican motherhood
• True womanhood
• Ideal womanhood
• Moral motherhood
• Paternal authority

Work and Labor-Related Keywords:

• Women in the workforce (19th century)
• Industrialization and gender
• Female labor (19th century)
• Textile mills and women
• Domestic service (19th-century women)
• Factory girls

Legal and Political Aspects:

• Coverture laws
• Married women’s property rights
• Women’s suffrage movement (19th century)
• Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

Family and Marriage Keywords:

• Marriage expectations (19th century)
• Child-rearing and gender
• Fatherhood and masculinity
• Motherhood and femininity
• Divorce laws (19th century)

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General Historical Keywords:

• Post-Civil War South
• Reconstruction Era (1865-1877)
• Jim Crow South
• Southern society after the Civil War
• Lost Cause ideology
• Southern aristocracy decline
• Southern economy post-war
• Southern Gothic literature

Social and Cultural Keywords:

• Race relations in the South (post-Civil War)
• Gender roles in the South (19th-20th century)
• Southern traditions and modernization
• Honor culture in the South
• Class structure in the postbellum South
• Isolation in Southern society
• Southern nostalgia for the Old South

Literary Keywords Related to A Rose for Emily

• William Faulkner and Southern literature
• Southern Gothic themes in Faulkner
• Symbolism in A Rose for Emily
• Decay and death in A Rose for Emily
• Emily Grierson as a Southern Belle
• Faulkner’s critique of the South

Economic and Political Keywords:

• Sharecropping and tenant farming
• Industrialization in the South
• Southern economy after Reconstruction
• Rise of the New South
• Political change in the post-war South
• Segregation and Jim Crow laws

Psychological and Thematic Keywords:

• Isolation and mental illness in literature
• Death and decay in literature
• Obsession and repression in literature
• Women and oppression in Faulkner’s works
• Memory and the past in Faulkner’s South

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General Historical Keywords:

• Salem, Massachusetts history
• Puritanism in New England
• Colonial Massachusetts
• New England Puritans
• 17th-century New England
• Religious beliefs in Puritan society
• Theocracy in Puritan New England

Salem Witch Trials and Superstition:

• Salem Witch Trials (1692)
• Witchcraft accusations in New England
• Puritan fear of the devil
• Witchcraft in colonial America
• Superstition and Puritan beliefs
• Religious hysteria and persecution
• Cotton Mather and witch trials
• Satan in Puritan theology

Cultural and Social Structure of Puritan New England:

• Puritan morality and social norms
• Puritan religious doctrine
• Original sin and Calvinism
• Predestination and the Elect
• Puritan gender roles
• Puritan views on marriage and family
• Community surveillance and moral policing

Literary and Thematic Keywords for Young Goodman Brown:

• Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritanism
• Hawthorne and colonial history
• Symbolism in Young Goodman Brown
• Puritan hypocrisy in literature
• The Devil in American literature
• Faith and doubt in Hawthorne’s works
• Allegory in Young Goodman Brown
• Guilt and sin in Puritan literature
• Moral corruption in New England tales

Political and Theological Keywords:

• Puritan legal system
• Church and state in Puritan society
• Religious intolerance in colonial America
• Puritan ministers and their influence
• The Great Awakening and Puritan decline

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Historical Keywords Related to Jim Crow Laws and the Civil Rights Movement:

• Jim Crow laws
• Racial segregation in the U.S.
• Black disenfranchisement (20th century)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and “separate but equal”
• Racial violence and lynching in the South
• Economic oppression under Jim Crow
• Sharecropping and racial inequality
• African American labor exploitation
• The Great Migration (1916-1970)
• Urban vs. rural Black experiences
• Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Voting rights and poll taxes
• Black masculinity and racial oppression
• NAACP and legal challenges to segregation

Keywords Related to “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” and Richard Wright:

• Richard Wright and African American literature
• Coming-of-age in African American literature
• Masculinity and racial identity in Wright’s works
• Symbolism in The Man Who Was Almost a Man
• Race and economic struggle in Wright’s fiction
• Southern Gothic and racial oppression
• Freedom and agency in African American narratives
• Psychological impact of racism in literature
• Violence and power dynamics in race relations
• Wright’s critique of systemic racism

Thematic Keywords (Social, Psychological, and Political Aspects):

• Social mobility and racial barriers
• Hegemony and racial power structures
• Systemic racism in African American literature
• Double consciousness and Black identity
• Intersection of race, class, and masculinity
• The myth of the American Dream for Black men
• Education and empowerment in African American literature
• Family expectations and racialized manhood

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• "Sharecropping" AND "economic oppression" AND "Black labor"

General Historical Keywords (Abortion and Abortion Rights in the U.S. and Spain):

• History of abortion in the United States
• History of abortion in Spain
• Reproductive rights in America
• Reproductive rights in Spain
• Abortion laws in the 20th century
• Illegal abortion and reproductive health
• Roe v. Wade (1973) and reproductive rights
• Abortion access before Roe v. Wade
• Abortion and the feminist movement (U.S.)
• Abortion and Francoist Spain
• Catholic Church and abortion laws (Spain)
• Criminalization of abortion in history
• Women’s healthcare and abortion rights
• Political debates on abortion (U.S. & Spain)

Keywords Related to "Hills Like White Elephants" and Hemingway:

• Hemingway and gender roles
• Symbolism in Hills Like White Elephants
• Abortion themes in Hemingway’s works
• Reproductive choice in literature
• Dialogue and power dynamics in Hills Like White Elephants
• Hemingway and modernist literature
• Female agency in Hemingway’s fiction
• Masculinity and persuasion in literature
• Hemingway’s portrayal of relationships

Thematic Keywords (Social, Psychological, and Ethical Aspects):

• Psychological impact of abortion decisions
• Moral debates on abortion in literature
• Religion and abortion discourse (U.S. & Spain)
• Women’s autonomy and reproductive choice
• Cultural attitudes toward abortion (20th century)
• Gender and power in reproductive decisions
• Public health and abortion laws
• Medical ethics and abortion debates

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