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Additional authors

1. Perry, James, 1756-1821.
2. Fielding and Walker, publisher.

Description

1. [4], 29, [3] pages; 27 cm (4to)

Summary

1. "As a direct result of ... new scientific experiments on electrical eels and torpedo fish, a new wave of erotica emerged in the 1770s playing with images of the male genitalia as an eel." This work, a parody on Thomas Gray's famous Elegy, "mocked Countess Halifax, Lord Bute ... and Chevalier-Madame d'Eton de Beaumont." -- Peakman, J. Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England, pages 89-90.

Subject

1. Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
2. Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810
3. Bawdy poetry > 18th century
4. Verse satire > 18th century
5. Satire > 18th century
6. Poetry, Modern > 18th century

Genre/Form

1. Bawdy poetry.
2. Erotic poetry.
3. Poetry.

Call number

1. Pforz (Lovejoy, L. Elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel)

Note

1. Lucretia Lovejoy is a pseudonym. According to Jackson, this work was likely written by a man.
2. "Advertisement", signed Adam Strong [i.e. James Perry, the journalist], page [3] of preliminaries.
3. "Price One Shilling and Sixpence."
4. Signatures: [A]² B-E⁴

Indexed in (note)

1. English short title catalogue
2. Jackson, J. Romantic Poetry by Women

Author

1. Lovejoy, Lucretia.

Title

1. An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / by Lucretia Lovejoy, sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel.

Publisher

1. London : Printed for Fielding and Walker, No. 20, Pater-noster-Row, MDCCLXXVII [1777].

Edition

1. [First edition].

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. English short title catalogue, T32537 http://estc.bl.uk/T32537
2. Jackson, J. Romantic Poetry by Women, page 391

Local note

1. Pforzheimer copy: Pencil marginalia to title page and page 7 identifies Countess Halifax and Lord Bute as saterized figures. -- Modern half calf over marbled boards, spine title stamped in gilt horizontally "ELEGY ON DEATH OF ELECTRIC EEL"; several blank binder's leaves bound in at end.

Place of publication

1. England London.

Added author

1. Perry, James, 1756-1821.
2. Fielding and Walker, publisher.

Research call number

1. Pforz (Lovejoy, L. Elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel)