Duckert, L: Arcticologies Early Modern Actions for Our Warmer World

"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 The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf

"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. Arcticologies 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 The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration