Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America

Introduction Part 1. In Books, Prints, and Photographs 1. Anxious Shores: Early Modern Illustrations of Marine Animals from the Magellan Strait and the Chilean Coast 2. Capturing Animal Life in Brehms Thierleben 3. Turning the World Inside Out: Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Broadsheets 4. Talking Like the Birds: Animal Speech and Embodied Imitation in Early Colonial Mexico 5. Posing Pony: Considering Horses, Children, and Display in Rural Lakota Photographs Part 2. In Palaces, Churches, and Ceremonial Spaces 6. Visceral Castor: Animal Presence in Indigenous Beaver-Pelt Coats and French Tricorn Hats 7. A World Beyond the Mines: Birds in the Flower Paintings of San Martín de Tours in Potosí, Bolivia 8. The War Stories of Sspitaikoan 9. Coexisting Species and Imperial Networks: Displaying African and Asian Animals in the New Kingdom of Granada 10 Winged Beasts for Charles III Part 3. In Studios, Theatres, and Museums 11. The Corpse at the Door: Edwin Landseer and Albert the Lion 12. Bloodhounds, Race, and Spectacle: From Nineteenth-Century Melodrama to Breed Specific Legislation 13. Riding into the Afterlife: A Close Reading of Honoré Fragonard’s Écorché of a Horse and his Rider (1766–1771) 14. Fragile Fragments: Reflections on Victorian Beetle Art in a Time of Climate Crisis Part 4. In Parks, Fairs, and Zoos 15. “Predecessors of the Living:” Displaying Extinct Animals at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham” 16. Twice-stilled Animals: Control and Vulnerability in Images of Taxidermy in the United States 17. “From ocean’s depths and inland streams:” Fish on Display at the 1893 Columbian Exposition 18. How a Polar Bear Lived in Canada’s First National Park