1st Edition
Cold Tyranny and the Demonic North of Early Modern England
By Anne Cotterill
Copyright 2024
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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The seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were among the worst years of the Little Ice Age. This volume attends to English texts from this period to trace associations between wintry physical landscapes and an icy inner landscape of human cruelty and tyranny whose rigors promote the ultimate chill of rigor mortis. Sailors seeking a polar route to the East brought terrifying reports of... Read more
Foreword, Introduction, Part I. At Home and Far From Home: Records of the Tyrant Cold, Chapter 1. Empress of the Northern Clime: London in Winter, Chapter 2. cold chaos and half-eternal night: Overwintering Far North, Part II. Literature and the Lab: Imaginative and Experimental Explorations of Cold, Chapter 3. Weathering the Fall in The Winter's Tale, Chapter 4. Milton and Horror Chill: Cold Within and Without, Chapter 5. Nature's Cold Left Hand: Boyle's Experimental History of Cold, Begun, Chapter 6. Armed Winter and Inverted Day: The Politics of Cold in Dryden and Purcell's King Arthur, Chapter 7. James Thomson and the Despot of Winter, Coda, Bibliography.
Biography
Anne Cotterill is Associate Professor Emerita at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She has published Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature (Oxford, 2004) and essays on the work of John Dryden, Andrew Marvell, and Elizabeth Isham.
