num_pages: 246
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Intellectuals and The Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939
titlecomplete: The Intellectuals and The Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939
characters: T.S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, E.M. Forster, Ezra Pound, H.G. Wells
genres: Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Literature, Cultural Studies, Research, Criticism, History, Society, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 389
places: England
publisher: Faber and Faber