Melvillian

English Etymology From en Melville ian. Adjective en Melvillean. en 2012 w:The Charlotte Observer 2 better choices in 9th Congressional District "Then he rallied in Huntersville with Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a Melvillian character on a never-ending crusade against Latinos." Noun en Melvillean. en w:Henry Murray Appendix: Repunctuating the Melville Revival: A New Map, a Pause, and a Tour through the Archives [Murray to [Jay] Leyda, March 10, 1949] Clare L. Spark Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival Kent, Oh.; London The Kent State University Press 10 March 1949 2001 522 https://archive.org/details/huntingcaptainah0000spar/page/522/mode/1up 0-87338-674-4 Perhaps you think I am “spitefully” sitting on a lot of secrets—facts unknown to you or other Melvillians—I don’t know of a single fact that is unknown to you.—Many of them facts from my collection are to be found in the Pierre footnotes; if they have not already been published by other Melvillians. en w:Roger Lockyer King of Scotland James VI and I Profiles in Power Harlow, Essex Addison Wesley Longman Limited 1998 26 https://archive.org/details/jamesvii0000lock/page/26/mode/1up 0-582-27962-3 The reduction of aristocratic power had been achieved only at the cost of conciliating the Melvillians in the Scottish Church and leaving episcopacy in limbo. en w:Jenny Wormald Confidence and Perplexity: The Seventeenth Century Jenny Wormald Scotland: A History Oxford, Oxon w:Oxford University Press 2005 157 https://archive.org/details/scotland00jenn/page/157/mode/1up 0-19-820615-1 In 1596, James had successfully undermined Edinburgh’s support for the Melvillians by threatening to remove council and law court from the capital. en w:Alec Ryrie Reforming the World of the Parish The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms, 1485–1603 Religion, Politics and Society in Britain Harlow, Essex Pearson Education Limited 2009 262 https://archive.org/details/ageofreformation0000ryri/page/262/mode/1up 978-1-4058-3557-2 It was easier for the Melvillians to write manifestos than to bring these structures into being. For most of the 1567–73 civil war, the Scots Church remained a strange hybrid, a half-finished Reformed Church alongside the still-functioning husk of its Catholic predecessor. en David Dowling Conclusion: Poetry in and beyond Moby-Dick Chasing the White Whale: The Moby-Dick Marathon; or, What Melville Means Today Iowa City, Ia. w:University of Iowa Press 2010 202 https://books.google.com/books?id=ItPaM5irvgcC&pg=PA202 978-1-58729-906-3 Most Melvillians have their own favorite impassioned lyrical moments in Moby-Dick prior to the marathon reading. en James L. Machor Preface Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820–1865 Baltimore, Md. The Johns Hopkins University Press 2011 xi https://books.google.com/books?id=JUcgIbJs72YC&pg=PR11 978-0-8018-9874-7 While Melville began as a highly popular author, his fiction quickly fell into disfavor in the early 1850s. Most modern Melvillians have explained that descent by depicting Melville as the quintessentially brilliant but misunderstood writer, who grew increasingly alienated from and disdainful of his contemporary readers because they failed to respond to and appreciate the genius and complexity of his novels. en eponyms en Fans (people) Moby-Dick