Catland: Louis Wain and the great cat mania
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In Catland, Kathryn Hughes chronicles the cat craze of the early twentieth century through the life and career of Louis Wain. Wain's anthropomorphic drawings of cats in top hats falling in love, sipping champagne, golfing, driving cars, and piloting planes are some of the most instantly recognizable images from the era. His round-faced fluffy characters established the prototype for the modern cat, which cat "fanciers" were busily trying to achieve using their newfound knowledge of the latest scientific breeding techniques. Despite being a household name, Wain endured multiple bankruptcies and mental breakdowns, spending his last fifteen years in an asylum, drawing abstract and multicolored felines. But it was his ubiquitous anthropomorphic cats that helped usher the formerly reviled creatures into homes across Europe. -- adapted from jacket.
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Hughes, K. (2024). Catland: Louis Wain and the great cat mania. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hughes, Kathryn, 1959-. 2024. Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hughes, Kathryn, 1959-, Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hughes, Kathryn. Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
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505 | 0 | |a Welcome to Catland -- Early terrors -- The beforetimes -- Maternal material -- Thinking with cats -- It wasn't milk -- Show time -- About town -- Ca-doe-mee -- Court in the act -- Owls and pussycats : queer lives in Catland -- Odd fish -- Cats for pleasure and profit -- Hitched -- Caterwauling -- Enter Peter -- "She smells of fish" -- Cat man -- The end of everything -- Catland-on-Sea -- Pussies galore -- A chat with Mr Louis Wain -- "Yellow peril" -- A man perpetually laughing -- A cat may look at a princess -- Metaphysics and madness -- Two tales -- Crossed wires -- Cat burglar -- Cat man in the New World -- Sisters under the cat skin -- Speed demon -- Cat catcher -- Home fromt in Catland -- Cats under canvas -- Catland at the kinema -- Felix turns the tide -- The fire of the mind agitates the atmosphere -- Scaredy-cats -- A little man drawing cats -- Hardy's heart -- Bedlam -- The cat's miaow -- Months in the country -- Stuffed cats -- Wallpaper -- The myth of the disintegrating cat -- On Margate sands. | |
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