{"product_id":"9780008365103","title":"Catland : Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World","description":"Author(s): Hughes, Kathryn, \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003eDate of Publication: 25\/04\/2024, \u003cbr\u003ePagination: 416 pages, \u003cbr\u003eSeries: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Fourth Estate Ltd, \u003cbr\u003e Published By: HarperCollins Publishers, \u003cbr\u003eBook Classification: United Kingdom, Great Britain\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 163 x 242 x 39mm\u003cbr\u003eWeight: 678g\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008365103\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Spectator Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A New Yorker Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Smart, gorgeously written cultural history’ TLS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Delightful’ Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Excellent’ Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Joyous cultural history’ The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Through humour, elegance and sheer knowledge, Hughes builds something remarkable’ Literary Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘If a Louis Wain cat were reading this book, he would raise his topper in tribute’ The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Catland is a tour de force of (cat) history: sleek, elegant and razor-sharp when needed’ History Today\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Excellent … Hughes reveals a fascinating, forgotten aspect of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain: how the British fell in love with felines’ Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘An entertaining and often surprising cultural history … typically delivered in an inviting spirit of delight’ New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54924814582138,"sku":"9780008365103","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9780008365103.jpg?v=1735402891","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780008365103","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}