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The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1800-1939 (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (1 Oct 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571169260
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571169269
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Professor Carey's frontal assault on the principles and practices of literary modernism caused an immediate critical storm, establishing itself as a key text for all future discussion of the subject.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, 1 Aug 2006
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A very well-written book full of fascinating details. A few criticisms: I would have preferred a chronological approach, to show how attitudes had changed over the period covered - this is only approximated by the ordering of material, ending with Hitler and covering postmodernism in the postscript; occasional lapses into subjective language are unworthy of the author; a failure to recognise that Joyce not only wrote about the 'common man' but was happy to associate with him, suggesting that his prolix style was not simply the result of a desire to be 'exclusive' (and to say this is true of others is a bit simplistic). The treatment of Orwell also seemed a bit unfair, and did Nietzsche really have less subtlety and imagination than DH Lawrence? I would agree with the central thesis - that to view 'the masses' as a uniformly subhuman group is an arrogant fallacy. But surely it's valid to be critical of and frustrated by the mass media that pander to the lowest common denominator, even if their audience are, individually, more intelligent than what they read.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars surprisingly funny, 24 Oct 2007
This is probably politically incorrect but I found this book very funny in parts as it mirrors to some extent contemporary concerns about dumbing down. The shock & outrage (described by John Carey) felt by the intelligentsia at the thought of (for instance) the working class being encouraged to read is funny but also very chilling and echoes many of the ill informed leaders carried by many (so called) newspapers 100 years later. A thought provoking and unsettling read.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A book that gives an answer to the way we are, 16 Jun 1999
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This review is from: The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939 (Hardcover)
John Carey has given us an insight to the reason why we are the way we are. Prejudice has always been a part of this country's social fabric and the middle classes are as guilty as the ignorant working class that is made to bear the blame. This is a book that is interesting to read as the writer carefully unravels the class myth and gives us an answer to many questions that we did not even know to ask. This was a liberating read for me and I would have easily given it the five crown if some of the people I gave it to had not found it hard going. But this is the situation in a mentally lazy society where we are made to feed off baby spoons through pop culture, that ensures that we remain unaware in a world that is increasingly looking like that magic phrase: The More You Look, The Less You See.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Has its moments - but lazy and unfair
The first thing that I feel I should mention is that this work, in which John Carey is highly critical of the deliberate obfuscation of modernism, which Carey claims was a... Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2006 by Ms. C. M. Elvey

5.0 out of 5 stars The 'Intellectual Elites' view YOU the masses with fear & suspicion.
Carey is an excellent author (and speaker) he never gets over heated, pompous or partisan.
This book outlines how the intellectual elite of the 1930s viewed thier fellow... Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2002 by ISCA

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