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Hardcover Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature Book

ISBN: 0821413244

ISBN13: 9780821413241

Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature

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 by this ferment, our major romantic authors shared the sensibility that Friedrich Schlegel linked...

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