Catland

Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

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<p><strong>*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize*</strong></p><p>A <em>Times</em>and <em>Sunday Times</em> Book of the Year</p><p>A <em>Wall Street Journal</em> Book of the Year</p><p>A <em>Spectator</em>Book of the Year</p><p>A <em>Times Literary Supplement</em> Book of the Year</p><p>A <em>New Yorker</em> Book of the Year</p><p><strong>Some 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.</strong></p><p><strong>'Smart, gorgeously written cultural history' <em>TLS</em></strong></p><p><strong>'Delightful' <em>Guardian</em></strong></p><p><strong>'Excellent' <em>Spectator</em></strong></p><p><strong>'Joyous cultural history' <em>The Times</em></strong></p><p><em>'He invented a whole cat world'</em> declared H. G. Wells of Louis Wain, the Edwardian artist whose anthropomorphic kittens made him a household name. His drawings were irresistible but <em>Catland</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. <em>Catland</em> is a fascinating and fabulous unravelling of our obsession with cats, and the man

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780008365141

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 128 x 35 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. UK