I, Lobster : a crustacean odyssey /

A consideration of the lobster in history, myth, art, literature, and cuisine.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frazier, Nancy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, ©2012.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:1611683238
9781611683233
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Consider the cult of the lobster
  • Celebrations, seductions, and crimes
  • "Natural" history
  • Life, death, and medical conditions
  • Man-eating monsters
  • SF: are we all lobsters yet?
  • The palinurus/Palinurus problem
  • "Secrets of the sea"
  • A metaphor for people
  • The bartender and the lobster
  • Welcome to the lobster hotel
  • Bouillabaisse
  • Lobster onstage: recipes
  • Epilogue.