Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance

By:

Harriet Prescott Spofford

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Hardback

Series:

Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature

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A forgotten gem of nineteenth-century American fiction. Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel 'Sir Rohan's Ghost' by Harriet Prescott Spofford (18351921), one of nineteenth-century America's most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind. Setting her tale in the enigmatic Sir Rohan's beautiful-yet-decaying estate, Spofford immerses readers in a ghost story that marries lush imagery with an atmosphere of impending, mysterious doom. Upon its initial publication, a reviewer writing for 'The Baltimore Sun' deemed 'Sir Rohan's Ghost' as 'a strange, weird production, fascinating and exciting [...] A work of genius and not without moral significance'. Dating from a time when women writers like Spofford were increasingly making their voices heard by reshaping the character of popular American literature, 'Sir Rohan's Ghost' remains to this day an engaging and important work of Gothic fiction.

Author Biography:

Matthew Wynn Sivils is a professor of English at Iowa State University, USA, and the author/editor of eight books, including 'Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature' (2017) and 'American Environmental Fiction, 17821847' (2014).

Release date Australia

December 14th, 2019

Author

Harriet Prescott Spofford

Series

Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature

Contributor

Edited by Matthew Wynn Sivils

Pages

200

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Dimensions

153x229x26

ISBN-13

9781785272875

Product ID

31882770

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