John Carey (critic) Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880–1939" was a critique of Modernist writers (particularly T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats, D. H. Lawrence and H. G. Wells) for what Carey argues were their elitist and misanthropic views of mass society. In his review of the book Geoff Dyer wrote that Carey picked out negative quotations from his subjects. Stefan Collini responded that disdain for mass culture amongst some Modernist writers was already well-known among literary historians. Carey was born in April 1934 in Barnes, then on the Surrey/London border, the youngest of their four recorded children,
Peter Hunt (literary critic) said of fantasy is that it has nothing to do with reality." This book is actually a complete departure from Hunt's usual concern of defining children's literature, and possibly suggests a change in what subject matter he will choose to study in the future. Peter Hunt (literary critic) Peter Hunt (born 1945) is a British scholar who is Professor Emeritus in Children's Literature at Cardiff University. Hunt's books include works of criticism, novels, and stories for younger children. The Children's Literature courses that he ran at Cardiff were the first to treat children's literature as a subject of academic study