Cold Tyranny and the Demonic North of Early Modern England - Cotterill, Anne
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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 northern icescapes, long popularly linked with the devil

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Produktbeschreibung
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 northern icescapes, long popularly linked with the devil
Autorenporträt
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.