Hard Frost, 1684

Snider, Alvin

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“…The Orcadian accounts of Finnmen do broadly coincide with temperature minimums in the late seventeenth century and were followed by a period in Scottish history known as the Seven Ill Years, a period of crop failure and famine that started in 1695. 11 Climate data gathered from Icelandic annals confirms that the "last decade of the seventeenth century was extremely cold. It was also the decade with the most sea ice during the years 1601-1700."…”

Section: Theories Of Indigenous Agency and Colonial Abductionmentioning

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The Inuit discovery of Europe? The Orkney Finnmen, preternatural objects and the re-enchantment of early-modern science

Westaway

2020

Atlantic Studies

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The late-seventeenth century saw a peak in accounts of supposed encounters with "Finnmen" in Orkney. These accounts have shaped the folklore of the Northern Isles. Scholars linked to the Royal Society suggested the accounts represented encounters with Inuit. Subsequent explanations included autonomous travel by Inuit groups and abduction and abandonment. These accounts should be understood as part of a European scientific tradition of preternatural philosophy, occupied with the deviations and errors of nature. Far from indicating the presence of Inuit individuals in Orkney waters, they provide evidence of the narrative instability of early-modern science and its habit of "thinking with things." Captivated by Inuit artefacts, the natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society imagined Orkney as a site of reverse contact with the "primitive." Nineteenth-century antiquarians and folklorists reliant on these texts failed to understand the extent to which objectivity was not an epistemic virtue in early-modern science.

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Section: Theories Of Indigenous Agency and Colonial Abductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

The Inuit discovery of Europe? The Orkney Finnmen, preternatural objects and the re-enchantment of early-modern science

Westaway

2020

Atlantic Studies

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“…Snider (2008) “Hard Frost, 1684” examines ballads alongside diaries, sermons, and other documents written at the end of the 17th century England to reveal how harsh winter weather and climate caused by the Little Ice Age mediates between interior and exterior realms and how English identities are formed in the operations of climate. Adopting the perspective of materialist ecocriticism, Menely's (2021) Climate and the Making of Worlds: Towards a Geohistorical Poetics investigates the climate writings in the poetry composed between the middle 17th century and early 19th century.…”

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Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

Xie

2022

WIREs Climate Change

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Much ink has been spilt on the study of climate change fiction (cli-fi), whereas relatively less attention has been devoted to the burgeoning growth of climate change poetry. As a sub-genre of ecopoetry which aims at dealing with realistic environmental issues and raising readers' awareness to protect the earth, climate change poetry not only represents the ongoing climatic crises in varied ways, be they realistic or imaginative, but also actively engages in provoking ecological responsibilities and environmental activism. This article is an overview of contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry and its literary criticism. Having emerged at the end of the 20th century in the United Kingdom, this poetic genre cuts across literature and environment, rising both as a prominent literary mode and an important environmental phenomenon. Interdisciplinarity, multiple topics, environmental activism, and experimentation are its primary characteristics. Current scholarship on contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry is limited and it mainly adopts theories of ecocriticism and the Anthropocene. Climate justice, poetry and activism, and comparative literary perspective are among promising avenues for the future study of this new poetic genre. Contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry, and its criticism, indicate both poets and critics' efforts to represent and, more importantly, to grapple with ongoing climate change. This article is categorized under: Trans-disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Ethics and Climate Change K E Y W O R D S climate change poetry, ecocriticism, ecopoetry, environmental activism, poetic criticism 1 | INTRODUCTION Literary studies have witnessed a rise of "climate change criticism" since 2010. Special issues of journals and conferences devoted to climate change frequently appeared. 1 There has been a considerable amount of scholarship on climate

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“…He finds that Shelley drew connections between climate change, social harmony, and moral perfectibility, while Malthus and Keats used the language of melancholy to critique dreams of absolute felicity and climatic engineering, and argues that the latter provide a more useful model for current environmental concerns. Snider draws on Royal Society reports, diaries, ballads, paintings, sermons, and other documents to investigate how a series of severe winters in the 17th century helped to constitute the English identity in terms of climate 130. Sudan investigates the interconnections between Enlightenment science, British colonialism, and fantasies of climate control 131.…”

Section: Literary Studies and Climate Changementioning

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Climate change in literature and literary criticism

Trexler

Johns‐Putra

2011

WIREs Climate Change

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Abstract:This article provides an overview of climate change in literature, focusing on the representation of climate change in Anglophone fiction. It then evaluates the way in which these fictional representations are critiqued in literary studies, and considers the extent to which the methods and tools that are currently employed are adequate to this new critical task. We explore how the complexity of climate change as both scientific and cultural phenomenon demands a corresponding degree of complexity in fictional representation. For example, when authors represent climate change as a global, networked, and controversial phenomenon, they move beyond simply employing the environment as a setting and begin to explore its impact on plot and character, producing unconventional narrative trajectories and innovations in characterization. Then, such creative complexity asks of literary scholars a reassessment of methods and approaches. For one thing, it may require a shift in emphasis from literary fiction to genre fiction. It also particularly demands that environmental criticism, or ecocriticism, moves beyond its long-standing interest in concepts of 'nature' and 'place', to embrace a new understanding of the local in relation to the global. We suggest, too, that there are synergies to be forged between these revisionary moves in ecocriticism and developments in literary critical theory and historicism, as these critical modes begin to deal with climate change and reimagine themselves in turn.Climate change now occupies a primary position not just on political and scientific agendas but in the wider cultural imagination. Just five years ago, Robert Macfarlane bemoaned the dearth of creative response to climate change, asking, 'Where are the novels, the plays, the

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Hard Frost, 1684

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The Inuit discovery of Europe? The Orkney Finnmen, preternatural objects and the re-enchantment of early-modern science

The Inuit discovery of Europe? The Orkney Finnmen, preternatural objects and the re-enchantment of early-modern science

Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

Climate change in literature and literary criticism

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