Description
Book SynopsisAn innovative examination of encounters between humans and lions and representations of these charismatic animals in the visual culture of postrevolutionary France
Trade Review“A brilliant but also sobering analysis of the images produced by and around a ‘man-made ecological disaster.’ It is also an intensely personal book.”—Tom Stammers,
APOLLO“Extraordinarily well-researched and a deeply engrossing read,
Myth and Menagerie moves across textual and visual artifacts with great fluency, bringing readers as close as possible to the once-living lions who inspired the book.”—Natania Meeker, University of Southern California
“Hornstein accords lions the dignity, empathy, and respect that they were habitually denied in the period and have rarely received in historical scholarship.
Myth and Menagerie is an achievement for its originality and the depth with which it examines lion-human interactions.”—David O’Brien, author of
Exiled in Modernity: Delacroix, Civilization, and Barbarism
