This essay will examine how gothic fiction is very deeply embedded in the culture and time period in which it was produced. This will be studied through looking at Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein and Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto. With gothic fiction being produced during the age of enlightenment, the novels reflect a culture period of intellectualism that prised scientific enquiry and also questions morals and religion. Thus the period departed from the previous social system which
the modern literary tendencies have derived from this formative era.Nineteenth-century literature is characterized by the Romantic movement and by the strong nationalism which was formed by French Revolution and American revolution in 18th century.Romantic movement developed as a rection to scientific and rational attitude of 18C..It was a shift from age of decorum,reason and order to Romantic age of sentiments,feelings,love for nature and emotionsIt was the time when England was tranforming from
period while during the Victorian period art is a lot more focussed on the indoors life. In the Victorian period we see the novel grow, essays and periodicals circulation increased drastically. ‘The Expansion of print culture enabled a wide range of prose writing to flourish’. (Paul Poplawski, p 455). I think it is very interesting to see that the industrial revolution impacted the realistic indoor focus of the Victorian