Words at Work in Vanity Fair [electronic resource] : Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914-1930 /
Banta, M.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Vanity fair (London, England : 1868)
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Fiction.
Ethnology.
Literature-Philosophy.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Cultural Anthropology.
Literary Theory.