eighteenthcenturyfiction:“Lobsters,” a broadside from around 1650, features an a
eighteenthcenturyfiction:“Lobsters,” a broadside from around 1650, features an acrostic about this noble (and delicious) crustacean. I know this is a little early for the period covered by the journal, but I couldn’t resist posting this. And how did this slender, fragile piece of paper survive 350 years to end up in the McMaster University Library Archives anyway?A couple articles in Eighteenth-Century Fiction include the word “lobster,” believe it or not: read them here for free on the journal’s archiveFrances Burney’s Evelina: Mirvan and MezzotintAuthor: John HartOpening the Phosphoric “Envelope”: Scientific Appraisal, Domestic Spectacle, and (Un)”Reasonable Creatures” in Edgeworth’s BelindaAuthor: Nicole M. WrightAnd here’s an article on food (I like to post three essay links at least, for each Tumblr picture):‘The Muses O’lio’: Satire, Food, and Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Humphry ClinkerAuthor: Nicholas D. Smith -- source link
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