Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1: First Encounters, 1918–1929 15
7. 2: The Power of Literature 44
8. 3: The Mass Takes Shape: Literary Representations 75
9. 4: Theory and Its Discontents: The Massenwahntheorie 106
10. 5: The Threshold of Experience: Die Verzauberung 158
11. Conclusion 209
12. Bibliography 215
13. Index 225