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 | #3085239 in Books | Color: Other |  Ohio University Press |  2000-06-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.56 x1.62 x6.50l,2.37 | File type: PDF | 542 pages

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||19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.| Punning in the 19th century - what it's all about|By Brian Claxton|This book is wondrous. For openers, it is written so well that it is a marvel of English usage and will shame most of us that think we know the language. Secondly, it strikes a marvelous balance between pedagogy - for fundamentally this is a serious scholastic work - and the delight that the author takes|From Library Journal|Nineteenth-century Americans were fascinated by the meanings and origins of words and also loved a good joke. In this impressive work of scholarship, West (English, Univ. of Pittsburgh) explores the intense interest in etymology and verbal j

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 to punn...

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