7. James Thomson and the Despot of Winter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Foreword 9
5. Introduction 11
6. Part I At Home and Far from Home: Records of the Tyrant Cold
7. 1. “Empress of the Northern Clime”: London in Winter 61
8. 2. “Cold Chaos and Half-Eternal Night”: Overwintering Far North 81
9. Part II Literature and the Lab: Imaginative and Experimental Explorations of Cold
10. 3. Weathering the Fall in The Winter’s Tale 115
11. 4. Milton and “Horror Chill”: Cold Within and Without 157
12. 5. Nature’s Cold Left Hand: Boyle’s Experimental History of Cold, Begun 191
13. 6. “Armed Winter and Inverted Day” : The Politics of Cold in Dryden and Purcell’s King Arthur 237
14. 7. James Thomson and the Despot of Winter 263
15. Coda 297
16. Bibliography 309
17. Index 329