What does SS stand for? The abbreviation SS S.S. in front of the name of a ship stands for Steamship.SS is often used in the US as an abbreviation for social security.SS in the context of the Holocaust and World War 2 stands for Schutzstaffel which, translated literally, means Protective Squad.
Gothic authors are also often really into concepts like the sublime. No, not the '90s band. In literature, the term refers to a kind of out of this world experience that someone has in nature. And in gothic literature, it's closely linked with, well, sheer terrorâall because the sublime is so awe-inspiring.
Such an example exists in Henry James' The Turn of the. Screw, when the two children are possessed by the evil spirits of the. dead maid and caretaker. Of course, characters in a gothic story can. also be haunted by their own burdens of the past; see the pursued. protagonist. --Kala Aaron. Anti-Catholicism A frequent and, for some critics, foundational. feature of early Protestant gothic fiction.