The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 by John Carey

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

John Carey

246 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history politics reflective slow-paced
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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 Sh...

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