Katie Hornstein is associate professor of art history at Dartmouth College and author of Picturing War in France, 1792–1856.

Received Honorable Mention for the 2026 Eugen Weber Book Prize in French History, sponsored by UCLA“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

Katie Hornstein is associate professor of art history at Dartmouth College and author of Picturing War in France, 1792–1856.

Received Honorable Mention for the 2026 Eugen Weber Book Prize in French History, sponsored by UCLA“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

Katie Hornstein is associate professor of art history at Dartmouth College and author of Picturing War in France, 1792–1856.

Received Honorable Mention for the 2026 Eugen Weber Book Prize in French History, sponsored by UCLA“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