Catland : Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World eAudiobook MP3
by Kathryn Hughes
Narrated by Jane McDowell
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'If a Louis Wain cat were reading this book, he would raise his topper in tribute' The Times'Excellent ...
Hughes reveals a fascinating, forgotten aspect of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain: how the British fell in love with felines' Daily Mail?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.'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.'Hughes combines ingenuity, insight, and immense literary charm in a study of cat culture and modernism.
A perfect gift for cat lovers, art lovers, and readers of all persuasions' Elaine Showalter'A darting, hobby-horsical, hugely interesting book' Guardian'On Victorian and Edwardian terrain, Hughes is near-omniscient ...
Through humour elegance and sheer knowledge, Hughes builds something remarkable' Literary Review
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- ISBN:9780008365134