Title: Transcendental wordplay
Description: "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."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: American literature, American wit and humor, English language, History and criticism, Knowledge, Language and languages, Nature in literature, Play on words, Puns and punning in literature, Rhetoric, Romanticism, Transcendentalism (New England), Plays on words, Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Puns and punning, American wit and humor, history and criticism, English language, rhetoric, English language, history, English language, united states, Romanticism, united states, Knowledge and learning
Places: United States
People: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Time periods: 19th century