Queen Christina’s coolness

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Series editor’s preface xi
4. Contributors xiii
5. Illustrations xvii
6. Acknowledgements xix
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I. Cool explorers
9. Travels in the cold zone 21
10. Nordic polar heroes 37
11. Serious playfulness? 53
12. Part II. Cool nature
13. The cultural memory of circumpolar survival 67
14. At home in the wilderness 81
15. Weather as human space in Harald Voetmann’s Alt under månen 97
16. Part III. Decolonising cool
17. Deco(o)lonising white femininity? 113
18. Indigenous cool 127
19. The coolness of Nordic science in fin-de-siècle Latin-American literary imagination 143
20. Part IV. Erotic cool
21. Erotic reason and female desire in Maria Jotuni and Elin Wägner 161
22. Cool love and economics in Herman Bang’s Stuk 175
23. Part V. Branding cool
24. The sublime North 191
25. The attraction of Nordic freshness 205
26. Rebranding “the North” 223
27. Part VI. Heroic cool
28. Standing cool against sword, spears and suffering 241
29. Cool apathy 255
30. Queen Christina’s coolness 269
31. Part VII. Cool aesthetics
32. Who can write sensible books in weather like this? 287
33. Passionately cool 303
34. Digital astro-evolution and ecological thinking in Johannes Heldén’s Astroecology 319
35. Index 337