Transcendental Wordplay America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature |
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| Author:
| West, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8214-1324-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2000 |
| Publisher: | Ohio University Press
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| Imprint: | Ohio University Center for International Studies |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $59.95 |
Book Description:
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Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, America was captivated by a muddled notion of "etymology." New England Transcendentalism was only one outcropping of a nationwide movement in which schoolmasters across small-town America taught students the roots of words in ways that dramatized religious issues and sparked wordplay.Shaped
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, America was captivated by a muddled notion of "etymology." New England Transcendentalism was only one outcropping of a nationwide movement in which schoolmasters across small-town America taught students the roots of words in ways that dramatized religious issues and sparked wordplay.Shaped