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Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World
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*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize*
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year
A Spectator Book of the Year
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A New Yorker Book of the Year
?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.
'Smart, gorgeously written cultural history' - TLS
'Delightful' - Guardian
'Excellent' - Spectator
'Joyous cultural history' - The Times
'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.
'Through humour, elegance and sheer knowledge, Hughes builds something remarkable' - Literary Review
'If a Louis Wain cat were reading this book, he would raise his topper in tribute' - The Times
'Catland is a tour de force of (cat) history: sleek, elegant and razor-sharp when needed' - History Today
'Excellent … Hughes reveals a fascinating, forgotten aspect of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain: how the British fell in love with felines' - Daily Mail
'An entertaining and often surprising cultural history … typically delivered in an inviting spirit of delight' - New Yorker
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HarperCollins Publishers
Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 C9W8
D01 C9W8 Dublin
enquiries@harpercollins.ie
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year
A Spectator Book of the Year
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A New Yorker Book of the Year
?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.
'Smart, gorgeously written cultural history' - TLS
'Delightful' - Guardian
'Excellent' - Spectator
'Joyous cultural history' - The Times
'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.
'Through humour, elegance and sheer knowledge, Hughes builds something remarkable' - Literary Review
'If a Louis Wain cat were reading this book, he would raise his topper in tribute' - The Times
'Catland is a tour de force of (cat) history: sleek, elegant and razor-sharp when needed' - History Today
'Excellent … Hughes reveals a fascinating, forgotten aspect of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain: how the British fell in love with felines' - Daily Mail
'An entertaining and often surprising cultural history … typically delivered in an inviting spirit of delight' - New Yorker
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
HarperCollins Publishers
Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 C9W8
D01 C9W8 Dublin
enquiries@harpercollins.ie
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Data wydania: 24.04.2025
Liczba stron: 416
Wymiary: 12.9x19.8
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: Fourth Estate
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Tytuł:Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World
EAN: 9780008365141
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