Animals on Display

Liv Emma Thorsen is Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. Karen A. Rader is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Adam Dodd is an independent researcher whose interests focus on the role that visioning technologies have played in developing conceptions of nonhuman animals.

“From the eighteenth century’s preserved monsters to the twenty-first century’s images of zoo polar bear Knut, the authors of Animals on Display foreground representations—not as transparent or objective acts but as visible and palpable forces working at micro and macro levels to shape cultural understandings and relationships to animals. After this book, the reader cannot look at commonplace images and figures of animals without thinking of how they are enframed and to what ends.”—Ron Broglio, Arizona State University

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Animals VisibleAdam Dodd, Karen A. Rader, and Liv Emma ThorsenPart IPreserving1Six Monstrous Pigs: Animal Monsters and Museum Practices in the Eighteenth-Century El Real Gabinete de Historia NaturalLise Camilla Ruud2The Frames of Specimens: Glass Cases in Bergen Museum Around 1900Brita Brenna3Preserving History: Collecting and Displaying in Carl Akeley’s In Brightest AfricaNigel RothfelsPart IIAuthenticating4The Pleasure of Describing: Art and Science in August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s Monthly Insect EntertainmentBrian W. Ogilvie5Images, Ideas, and Ideals: Thinking with and about Ross’s GullHenry A. McGhie6A Dog of Myth and Matter: Barry the Saint Bernard in BernLiv Emma ThorsenPart III Interacting7Popular Entomology and Anthropomorphism in the Nineteenth Century: L. M. Budgen’s Episodes of Insect LifeAdam Dodd8Interacting with The Watchful Grasshopper; or, Why Live Animals Matter in Twentieth-Century Science MuseumsKaren A. Rader9Polar Bear Knut and His BlogGuro FlinterudAbout the ContributorsIndex