Leonine Visibility and the Production of Nature

Review of Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century by Katie Hornstein (2024)

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https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.19395

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Review of:

Katie Hornstein, Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024. 272 pp. 108 colour + 50 b&w illus. $75.00 (hardcover).

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  • Laura Gelfand, Utah State University

    Laura Gelfand is Professor of Art History at Utah State University

Théodore Géricault, Head of a Lioness, ca. 1819–20, oil on canvas, 215/8 × 255/8 in. (55 × 65 cm). Musée du Louvre, Paris (artwork in the public domain; photograph by Erich Lessing, provided by Art Resource, NY)

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Published

2024-12-23

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2024)

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Reviews

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Copyright (c) 2024 Laura Gelfand (Author)

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Gelfand, Laura. 2024. “Leonine Visibility and the Production of Nature: Review of Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century by Katie Hornstein (2024)”. Humanimalia 15 (1): 171–178. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.19395.
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