Table of contents
Series editor’s preface
XI
Contributors
XIII
Illustrations
XVII
Acknowledgements
XIX
Part I.Cool explorers
Travels in the cold zone
21
Nordic polar heroes: The critical potential of literary history
37
Serious playfulness? Philippe Guicheteau’s Sunday letters from Finland
53
Part II.Cool nature
The cultural memory of circumpolar survival
67
At home in the wilderness: Gunnar Gunnarsson’s Advent
81
Weather as human space in Harald Voetmann’s Alt under månen
97
Part III.Decolonising cool
Deco(o)lonising white femininity? Of goddesses and silkworms in Karin Boye’s Astarte
113
Indigenous cool: Performativity and place-making in sami literature, art and music
127
The coolness of Nordic science in fin de siècle Latin-American Literary imagination
143
Part IV.Erotic cool
Erotic reason and female desire in Maria Jotuni and Elin Wägner
161
Cool love and economics in Herman Bang’s Stuk
175
Part V.Branding cool
The Sublime North: Iceland as an artistic discourse originating in the nineteenth century
191
The attraction of Nordic freshness: Melancholy, eroticism and health in “Vårvindar friska”
205
Rebranding “the North”: Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer’s sudden American success in the 1840s
223
Part VI.Heroic cool
Standing cool against sword, spears and suffering
241
Cool apathy: Approaches to the emotional life of Leonora Christina’s Jammers Minde
255
Queen Christina’s coolness
269
Part VII.Cool aesthetics
Who can write sensible books in weather like this? Carl August Thielo as experimental eighteenth-century novelist
287
Passionately cool: Concrete poetry in Denmark
303
Digital astro-evolution and ecological thinking in Johannes Heldén’s Astroecology
319
Index
337
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