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In The First Two Decades Of The Twentieth Century, A New Phenomenon Swept Politics: The Masses. Groups That Had Struggled As Marginal Parts Of The Political System - Particularly Workers And Women - Suddenly Exploded Into Vast And Seemingly Unstoppable Movements. A Whole Subgenre Of Sociological-political Treatises Purporting To Analyze The Mass Mind Emerged All Over Europe, Particularly In England. All These Texts Drew Heavily On The Theories Put Forth In The Crowd, Written In 1895 By The French Writer Gustave Le Bon And Translated Into English In 1897. Le Bon Developed The Idea That When A Crowd Forms, A Whole New Kind Of Mentality, Hovering On The Borderline Of Unconsciousness, Replaces The Conscious Personalities Of Individuals. His Descriptions Should Seem Uncanny To Literary Critics, Because They Sound As If He Were Describing Modernist Literary Techniques, Such As The Focus On Images And The Stream Of Consciousness. Equally Important Was Georges Sorel's Reflections On Violence (1906), Which Sought To Turn Le Bon's Theories Into A Methodology For Producing Mass Movements By Invoking The Importance Of Myth To Theories Of The Mass Mind. Examining In Detail The Surprising Simila

Author

Tratner, Michael

Publisher

Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804725163

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities