Title Words at work in Vanity Fair : language shifts in crucial times, 1914-1930 / Martha Banta

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages) 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 Summary 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 within society Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Vanity fair (London, England : 1868) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85149242 Vanity fair (London, England : 1868) fast Subject 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 Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- First World War, 1914-1918 -- Inter-war period, 1918-1939 -- USA. REFERENCE -- General. Literature. English language -- Rhetoric Journalism Rhetoric Rhetoric -- Political aspects Rhetoric -- Social aspects Great Britain United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230370814 0230370810

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