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Catland
  • ISBN: 9780008365103
  • Pages: 416
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Binding: Hardback

Catland

Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

Kathryn Hughes
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“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. 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.



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