squirearchy

But Eliot's use of degeneration theory does more than signal her antagonism to the listless squirarchy or mark the decline of her characters: it encloses the fairy tale and romantic elements of the novel in a properly realistic frame, since realism is itself linked historically to naturalism and its basis in French medicine, and it reiterates the embodiment of human psychology.

The upper bourgeoisie and squirarchy were especially affected by the development of "Affective Individualism" which radically changed the nuclear family.

Those turned out to be mainly the nouveau riche squirarchy of the Home Counties and the hinterland of industrial Lancashire.

And yet, unlike Mickiewicz's, Konwicki's improvisation would not demand "rule of souls" (Forefathers 171) of all people to turn them into "angels" (NWAV 162).(12) Konwicki prefers to present himself as one of the mass, a "lowly Wilno squirarchy" (NWAV 65).