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Melvillian, a.|mɛlˈvɪlɪən|
Also Melvillean.
[f. the name of Herman Melville (1819–91), American novelist + -ian1.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Melville or his work.
1947V. W. Brooks Times of Melville & Whitman viii. 169 The castaway crowd of tinkers, watch-makers, doctors and farmers who formed the crew in White-Jacket..sprang into life, a vivid Melvillean life, at the author's summons. 1950M. Lowry Let. 6 Mar. (1967) 201 The Sun published only a few syndicated lines that called it a turgid novel of self-destruction... This at least is Melvillean anyway; though it went very well in the States. 1950E. Blunden Chaucer to ‘B.V.’ 256 Even now, when American writing is so multifarious and so capricious, the highest and best track that it takes is Melvillian. 1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. 199 Bartleby is a true Melvillian hero—courageous and uncompromising. 1975New Yorker 26 May 98 (Advt.), Altogether, over 150,000 words spring vividly to life. Including 22,000 new ones like ‘bummer’ and ‘dashiki’ as well as the grand old Melvillian polysyllables. 1992New Yorker 14 Dec. 134/1 The book can be read as a monument to a New York that has mostly vanished—a raffish, romantic city of colorful, hard-drinking eccentrics..and of solitary Melvillean types who never venture far from the waterfront. |