“Winter Feeds It”: Cold and the Construction of Good and Evil in Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising

The culture of cooling – an introduction

“…An increased body of humanistic and social science literature has lately investigated cold and coldness as cultural and social phenomena, with a particular focus on Indigenous lifestyles, the Arctic region and climate change (Hansson & Norberg 2009;Dodds 2018;Ruiz, Schönach & Shields 2019;Gustafsson Reinius 2020;Villstrand & Westerlund 2022, to name but a few). Several studies focus on "ice-dependent lifeways and cultures that build out relations from seasonal and geological presences and absences" (Ruiz, Schönach & Shields 2019: 8).…”