{"product_id":"arcticologies-early-modern-actions-for-our-warmer-world-paperback-softback-9781517913588","title":"Arcticologies; Early Modern Actions for Our Warmer World (Paperback \/ softback) 9781517913588","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArcticologies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEarly Modern Actions for Our Warmer World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLowell Duckert (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517913588\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 August 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 15 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This fascinating, often lyrical book probes the enduring relevance of early modern encounters with cold in our increasingly overheated world. Lowell Duckert's careful readings and playful riffs reveal the agency of language, enabling insights to crystallize and accumulate like hoarfrost or blown snow.\" - Jesse Oak Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this inventive, nimble meditation on early modern conceptions of the cold, Lowell Duckert animates the experiential, figurative, categorical, ontological, and elementary qualities of coldness and the North. \u003ci\u003eArcticologies\u003c\/i\u003e is as fluent in contemporary environmental humanities conversations as it is in early modern literary study, and its delight in the language of coldness will in turn delight readers.\" - Hester Blum, author of \u003ci\u003eThe News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring the frozen past to rethink our warming future\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Do we really know what cold is? In \u003ci\u003eArcticologies,\u003c\/i\u003e Lowell Duckert delves into early modern European texts to trace how representations of frigidity from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have contributed to historical understandings of climate and contemporary debates on climate change. Arguing that human culture and science are, in fact, indebted to the cold, Duckert suggests that these early depictions offer critical terms for advancing the aims of climate-change activism and assisting in counterapocalyptic thinking. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e An imaginative and intellectual journey, \u003ci\u003eArcticologies\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the enduring role of cold in wide-ranging storytelling traditions. It draws on Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e and the works of Thomas Dekker, RenÉ Descartes, and Thomas Hobbes and is informed throughout by contemporary Indigenous writing, including that of Sheila Watt-Cloutier and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. In reflecting on these assorted accounts, Duckert sees cold as not only an environmental hardship but a source of cultural creativity and resilience, highlighting moments of collaboration between humans and the icy world, from arctic exploration to urban fairs on frozen rivers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Cold, Duckert makes clear, is more than the absence of warmth. Situating our contemporary obsession with impending planetary meltdown within the mazelike arcticologies of the past, Duckert shows how early modern cold brought about forms of curiosity, vocabulary, and interspecies relationality that can serve us today. In doing so, he asks us to identify what has been lost and who is at risk in today’s thinning cold-while also urging us to imagine alternative futures focused not on inevitable and total collapse but on adaptation and preserving what remains. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Preface: Plunge \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction: Cold Open \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Winterlude: Flake \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. Finding Frīgus \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Winterlude: Err \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. The North Portals \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Winterlude: Ask \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. Slippery Things \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Winterlude: Sympathize \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. A Wintering Tale \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Winterlude: Press \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. Hamlet on Ice \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Winterlude: Slide \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Co(l)da: Speaking as the North \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52716893536536,"sku":"9781517913588","price":20.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/arcticologies-early-modern-actions-for-our-warmer-world-paperback-softback-9781517913588","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}