The blasphemy or atheism of which Marlowe was accused in a number of late 16th-cent. documents.

The characteristic style or attitude of Rabelais.

An elaborate, literary style of language, speech, or writing, as used by or characteristic of Samuel Johnson, characterized by the use of many…

A phrase or expression characteristic of, or used by, Samuel Johnson; (also) style of language, speech, or writing characteristic of Johnson (see…

the characteristic manner or style of Boswell as a biographer.

a piece of writing or an expression characteristic of Swift.

an idiom or mode of expression characteristic of the writings of Scott; the ideas, style, etc. of Scott.

The characteristic literary manner or teachings of Carlyle.

The body of opinions or views expressed by Voltaire; the mocking and sceptical attitude characteristic of these.

An example of the discourse, style, or diction characteristic of Macaulay.

= Voltairism, n.

A literary style characteristic of the French novelist Émile Zola (1840–1902), whose works are marked by realistic treatment of the rougher sides of…

The characteristic style or attitude of Rabelais or his writings; bawdiness, vulgarity; earthy humour. Also: a Rabelaisian feature or characteristic.

a quality characteristic of the Brontës (see also -ism, suffix affix 2).

Doctrine, theory, or practice formed after the precepts and example of either Thomas Arnold or his son Matthew.

Views or opinions or style of expression characteristic of Rudyard Kipling (see Kiplingese, n.).

the tenets or a characteristic saying of G. B. Shaw; (also) a nonce-word in Shaw's writings.

An idiom or mode of expression coined by, or reminiscent of the style of, Mencken.

The style or behaviour of the Sitwells or their circle (see Sitwellian, adj.); something characteristic or reminiscent of this.

The theatrical style or method of Pirandello; a theatrical style or method imitating or reminiscent of this.

= Shavianism n.

Proustian manner or style.

A character typical of Wodehouse's works, esp. his comic fiction. rare.

(a) the ideas or style characteristic of Waugh, or those portrayed in his novels; (b) a word or expression characteristic of Waugh.

the beliefs or theories of C. P. Snow.

= Orwellism, n.

A literary device or effect characteristic of Pinter; a laconic or brooding style; the quality of being Pinteresque.

Something characteristic or reminiscent of the totalitarian social and political organization portrayed in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four (1949); spec.…