The intellectuals and the masses : pride and prejudice among the literary intelligentsia, 1880-1939

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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 canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor

John Carey, 1934-

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

246 s. ; 20 cm

Vydáno

London : Faber and Faber, 1992

Popis jednotky

Obsahuje rejstřík

ISBN

0-571-16926-0