John Carey is Emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, a Fellow of the British Academy and former Chief Book Reviewer for The Sunday Times. His books include The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?. He studies Donne, Milton, Thackery, and Dickens.
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....
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