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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

Transcendental Wordplay Americas Romantic

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      Publisher: Ohio University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/06/2000
      ISBN13: 9780821413241, 978-0821413241
      ISBN10: 0821413244
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      Book Synopsis
      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

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