Anne Cotterill is Associate Professor Emerita at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She has published Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature (Oxford, 2004) and essays on the work of John Dryden, Andrew Marvell, and Elizabeth Isham.

• Foreword Introduction Part I. At Home and Far From Home: Records of the Tyrant Cold Chapter 1. “Empress of the Northern Clime”: London in Winter Chapter 2. “cold chaos and half-eternal night”: Overwintering Far North Part II. Literature and the Lab: Imaginative and Experimental Explorations of Cold Chapter 3. Weathering the Fall in The Winter’s Tale Chapter 4. Milton and “Horror Chill”: Cold Within and Without Chapter 5. Nature’s Cold Left Hand: Boyle’s Experimental History of Cold, Begun Chapter 6. “Armed Winter and Inverted Day”: The Politics of Cold in Dryden and Purcell’s King Arthur Chapter 7. James Thomson and the Despot of Winter Coda Bibliography