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Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature
Michael West
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
542 pages, illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 30, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780821413241 |
| Publishers | Ohio University Press |
| Pages | 544 |
| Dimensions | 171 × 254 × 41 mm · 1.08 kg |
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