{"product_id":"catland-feline-enchantment-and-the-making-of-the-modern-world-by-kathryn-hughes","title":"Catland Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes","description":"\u003cp\u003e*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize*\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Wall Street Journal Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Spectator Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Yorker Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome 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\u003eAs 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\u003eWhether 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\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780008365103\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43440805642303,"sku":null,"price":31.79,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/26570933482190.jpg?v=1782032629","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/catland-feline-enchantment-and-the-making-of-the-modern-world-by-kathryn-hughes","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}