Sitwellismn.
/ˈsɪtw(ɛ)lɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsɪtwɛlˌɪz(ə)m/ The style or behaviour of the Sitwells or their circle (see Sitwellian adj.); something characteristic or reminiscent of this.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > ideas, etc., characteristic of specific writer
Marlowism1593
Rabelaism1803
Johnsonianism1807
Johnsonism1807
Boswellism1825
Swiftianism1826
Walter Scottism1835
Carlylism1841
Voltairism1841
Macaulayism1846
Voltairianism1848
Zolaism1882
Rabelaisianism1886
Brontëism1887
Arnoldism1892
Kiplingism1898
Shavianism1905
Menckenism1922
Sitwellism1922
Pirandellism1925
Shavianismus1927
Proustery1928
Wodehousian1931
Waughism1934
Snovianism1966
Orwellianism1967
Pinterism1967
Orwellism1970
Pinterishness1970
1920 Athenæum 21 May 687/1 A large, picturesque, romantic style, brought superficially up to date by a small admixture of Edith-Sitwellism.]
1922 S. Sassoon Diary 6 Sept. in J. M. Wilson Siegfried Sassoon: Journey from Trenches (2003) viii. 117 Who knows what peace I might find could I but travel a little further away from the hullabaloo of social life, with its eternal menacings of ennui and its hectic struggles to ‘be amused’? (Sitwellism.)
1932 F. R. Leavis New Bearings in Eng. Poetry ii. 73 The opposition to the Georgians was already..(just after the war) Sitwellism.
1981 V. Glendinning Edith Sitwell v. 80 The Sitwells' defence was attack... Sitwellism at its silliest and most inflated.
2002 M. Holroyd Wks. on Paper 132 The five volumes contain pages of emotional congestion, stilted passages, longueurs where the peculiar locutions endemic in Sitwellism have failed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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