Intellectuals and the Masses - John Carey
Pride and Prejudices 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. Carey's assault on the found...
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2005 Uitgever: Faber & Faber Limited 256 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0571169260 ISBN-13: 9780571169269Koop dit boek tweedehands
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