The Intellectuals and the Masses

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Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939

By Professor John Carey

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Professor John Carey examines how early twentieth-century intellectuals perceived the 'masses' as semi-human entities, influenced heavily by popular culture such as newspapers and cinema. The book reveals the disdain for common humanity evident in figures like George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, linking their views to the rise of the Nietzschean Superman ideal, ultimately embodied by Hitler. This provocative critique challenges the foundations of modern culture.
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The Intellectuals and the Masses is ideal for readers interested in cultural history, literary criticism, and the interplay between art, society, and politics in the twentieth century.

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.

In The Intellectuals and the Masses:Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 John Carey examines modernist art and literature and assaults the prejudices of the intellectual founders of modern culture.

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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 canonised 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571169269

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 1992

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 205g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Professor John Carey

About the Author

John Carey is Merton Professor of English at Oxford University, a distinguished critic, reviewer and broadcaster, and the author of several books, including studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, and most recently, Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books, described, by James Wood in the London Review of Books, as 'likeable, wise and often right . . . one feels an attractive sense of partisanship in Carey's writing, an alliance with the ordinary, the plain spoken, the unlettered, the sympathetic and the humane. Carey writes with an Orwellian attention to decency'. He is a regular critic on BBC2's Newsnight Review. He is also the editor of the best-selling anthologies The Faber Book of Reportage, The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Utopias.