Editing Isinglass (section)

== In popular culture ==

In the musical ''[[Oklahoma!]]'', the song "[[The Surrey With the Fringe on Top]]" describes the [[Surrey (carriage)|surrey]] as having "isinglass curtains you can roll right down" although here the term refers to [[mica]], commonly used for windows in vehicle side screens (but totally inflexible).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genius.com/Gordon-macrae-the-surrey-with-the-fringe-on-top-lyrics|title=Gordon MacRae – The Surrey With the Fringe on Top|website=genius.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Andrew F. |title=The Oxford encyclopedia of food and drink in America |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=9780199734962 |edition=2nd|page=345}}</ref> Mentioned several times in chapter 68 of ''[[Moby Dick]]'' by [[Herman Melville]], in a discussion of whale skin and blubber.
Mentioned in ''[[The Book of Life (Harkness novel)|The Book of Life]]'' by [[Deborah Harkness]], "her scales fell like isinglass", in reference to the scales of a fire drake named Corra, and in Mark Twain's ''[[The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today|The Gilded Age]]'' where he describes a furnace door which "framed a small square of isinglass..." (chapter seven). It is also mentioned in the first paragraph of [[Willa Cather]]’s [[The Song of the Lark (novel)|The Song of the Lark]]: “the isinglass sides of the hard-coal burner were aglow.”