Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939
by
Professor John Carey
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
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...