There's also terrific arctic stuff in Frankenstein! I didn't really understand that the place the arctic holds in the English literary imagination until I read the Phillip Pullman books -- but it's a huge element of Shelley's exploration of the sublime in Frankenstein. Rebecca Solnit writes a lot about this in The Faraway Nearby and then does a residency in Iceland.
And condolences on Chicago February -- I grew up there, and upon feeling blue sky sunshine on the top of a Colorado mountain in January decades ago, vowwed never to go back east of Denver again to live! Hang in there -- you'll have daffodils soon-ish.
There's also terrific arctic stuff in Frankenstein! I didn't really understand that the place the arctic holds in the English literary imagination until I read the Phillip Pullman books -- but it's a huge element of Shelley's exploration of the sublime in Frankenstein. Rebecca Solnit writes a lot about this in The Faraway Nearby and then does a residency in Iceland.
And condolences on Chicago February -- I grew up there, and upon feeling blue sky sunshine on the top of a Colorado mountain in January decades ago, vowwed never to go back east of Denver again to live! Hang in there -- you'll have daffodils soon-ish.