The Armament Directorate, located at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is responsible for cradle-to-grave management of air and ground dominance weapon system programs equipping warfighters with strike weapons to fight and win decisively.
* Discuss the definition and specific traits of Gothic literature. * Examine specific themes typically found in Gothic works. * Discuss important works from this genre, which exemplify its themes and other traits. Discuss Mary Shelley and the society in which she lived. * Read and understand the Preface, letters, and chapters 1-12 of Frankenstein. * Connect the novel with your own personal experiences and/or reactions to its themes. * Determine which features of this novel make it fit the Gothic genre.
History. One can trace elements of the Gothic novel in earlier novels such as Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett, published in 1753; but the first full-fledged Gothic novel was The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, which appeared in 1764. edit intro ]. The Gothic novel is a form of fiction which became popular in England in the second half of the eighteenth century. Gothic novels often involve elements of the supernatural and were designed to give a pleasing frisson of terror to the reader.