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OverviewThe 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 northern icescapes, long popularly linked with the devil. Simultaneously, concerns about increasingly cold winters at home in Britain overlapped with increased scrutiny of kingship and the church and fear of tyranny from both. Such fears were reflected in ongoing struggles between king and Parliament during the period, leading to revolution and war. The binding power of ice and the power of northern winters to deface, kill, and bury life suggested the Fall’s human parallel to winter: cold-hearted humans as tyrannical winters who deal in death. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anne CotterillPublisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press ISBN: 9789463728317ISBN 10: 9463728317 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 04 July 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword 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 BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationAnne 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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