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Melvillean
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English
Alternative forms
en Melvillian
Etymology
From en Melville an or en -ean.adj 6528595040
Adjective
Associated with the Scottish education reformer Andrew Melville (1545–1622).
en the Melvillean reforms of the 16th century
In a manner reminiscent of the writings of Herman Melville (1819–1891), especially the character Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick.
en He had a Melvillean obsession.
Noun
en historical A supporter of Scottish education reformer Andrew Melville (1545–1622).
An admirer or scholar of the works of Herman Melville (1819–1891).
en Ian Marshall Greylock and the Whale Story Line: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail Charlottesville, Va. University Press of Virginia 1998 163 https://archive.org/details/storylineexplori0000mars/page/163/mode/1up 0-8139-1797-2 But for me, and apparently for the Melvilleans who every summer trek up Monument Mountain on the first Sunday of August, the mountain has become a monument not to star-crossed Iroquois lovers but to the meeting of Hawthorne and Melville. Starting the easy hike up Monument Mountain on a sunny day in May, I hatch a scheme to come up here on the first Saturday of August, the day before the annual jaunt of the Melvilleans, to leave love notes from “Herman” to “Nathaniel” tacked on trees—just a little something to titillate the literati.
en Arimichi Makino Melville among Japanese Melvilleans Sanford E. Marovitz; A[thanasios] C. Christodoulou Melville “among the Nations”: Proceedings of an International Conference, Volos, Greece, July 2–6, 1997 Kent, Oh. Kent State University Press 2001 section VI (Projection and Reflection) 520 https://books.google.com/books?id=rpUY_8OjqHUC&pg=PA520 0-87338-696-5 Reciprocating Melville’s interest in Japan, enthusiastic Japanese Melvilleans have ever pursued his works, through which they seek to understand the cultural background of Western civilization.
en w:Paul La Farge Sailors and Scriveners w:Rebecca Solnit; w:Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas Oakland, Calif. w:University of California Press 2016 68 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780520285941/page/68/mode/1up 978-0-520-28594-1 But he no longer dreamed of putting out to sea; his daytime occupation was to make sure duties had been paid on unloaded cargo, and his writing hours were devoted to an 18,000-line poem, Clarel, about a pilgrimage through the desert—the desert!—to various sites in the Holy Land, which few even among Melvilleans can claim to have read.
References
en eponyms
en Fans (people) Moby-Dick