Words at Work in Vanity Fair
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Words at Work in Vanity Fair

Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914–1930

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Words at Work in Vanity Fair

Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914–1930

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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 Untied States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. Introduction: Words in Conversation with the Times
  6. One Two Editors, Two Projects, One War, 1914–1918
  7. Two The Corner Turned, 1919–1920
  8. Three Finding Their Focus, 1921
  9. Four Power- Brokers/Word- Masters, 1922–1925
  10. Five The Huxley Years, 1926–1928
  11. Six Between Wars, 1929–1930
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index