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by Kathryn Hughes| 2024| 87| English

About Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

‘Remarkable’ Literary Review’Startlingly original’ Amanda ForemanSome called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era.’He invented a whole cat world’ declared H. G. Wells of Louis Wain, the Edwardian artist whose anthropomorphic kittens made him a household name. His drawings were irresistible but Catland was more than the creation of one eccentric imagination. It was an attitude – a way of being in society while discreetly refusing to follow its rules.As cat capitalism boomed in the spectacular Edwardian age, prized animals changed hands for hundreds of pounds and a new industry sprung up to cater for their every need. Cats were no longer basement-dwelling pest-controllers, but stylish cultural subversives, more likely to flaunt a magnificent ruff and a pedigree from Persia. Wherever you found old conventions breaking down, there was a cat at the centre of the storm.Whether they were flying aeroplanes, sipping champagne or arguing about politics, Wain’s feline cast offered a sly take on the restless and risky culture of the post-Victorian world. No-one experienced these uncertainties more acutely than Wain himself, confined to a mental asylum while creating his most iconic work. Catland is a fascinating and fabulous unravelling of our obsession with cats, and the man dedicated to chronicling them.’If a Louis Wain cat were reading this book, he would raise his topper in tribute’ The Times’In her excellent book about the life and work of this cat-obsessed artist … Hughes reveals a fascinating, forgotten aspect of late Victorian and Edwardian how the British fell in love with felines’ Daily Mail’Consistently fascinating … A tremendous literary feat in which we learn about Victorian sociology through the work of a remarkably unique artist’ Kirkus, starred review

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Author:Kathryn Hughes
Publication Year:2024
ISBN:9780008365127
Language:English
File Size:87
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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