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

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

Michael West

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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 s...

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