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Words at work in Vanity Fair [electronic resource] : language shifts in crucial times, 1914-1930 / Martha Banta.

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Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the United States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes withi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Banta, Martha
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Vanity fair (London, England : 1868)
Rhetoric > History > 20th century.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > Great Britain.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > United States.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > Great Britain.
English language > United States > Rhetoric.
English language > Great Britain > Rhetoric.
Journalism > History > 20th century.
English language > Rhetoric.
Journalism.
Rhetoric.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Great Britain.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Words in Conversation with the Times€€
  • Two Editors, Two Projects, One War: 1914-1918€
  • The Corner Turned: 1919-1920€
  • Finding Their Focus: 1921
  • Power-Brokers, Word-Masters: 1922-1924€
  • The Huxley Years: 1926-1928€
  • Between Wars: 1929-1930.
  • Words in conversation with the times
  • Two editors, two projects, one war, 1914-1918
  • The corner turned, 1919-1920
  • Finding their focus, 1921
  • Power-brokers, word-masters, 1922-1925
  • The Huxley Years, 1926-1928
  • Between wars, 1929-1930.

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