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The Intellectuals and the Masses Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939

Paperback • 1992 • English

The Intellectuals and the Masses Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939

By John Carey

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About the book

Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's assault on ...Show more

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ISBN

9780571169269

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published year

1992

Language

English

Original title

The Intellectuals and the Masses Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939

Format

Paperback

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