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

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by Professor John Carey

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 0571169260

ISBN-13 9780571169269

Edition Main

Publisher Faber & Faber

Imprint Faber & Faber

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 1st, 1992

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 208 grams

Dimensions 19.60 x 12.90 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Literary theory Social classes

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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 the founders of modern culture caused consternation throughout the artistic and academic establishments when it was first published in 1992.

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 the founders of modern culture caused consternation throughout the artistic and academic establishments when it was first published in 1992.

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