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Richardˈsonian, a. and n.
[See below.]
A. adj. Pertaining to, resembling, etc., the works or style of the novelist Samuel Richardson (1689–1761).
1786A. Seward Let. 29 Mar. (1811) I. 135 Miss Reeves' reply to my Stricture on her Richardsonian absurdity, is at once weak and artful. 1831Macaulay in Trevelyan Life (1883) I. 216 When my Richardsonian epistles are published, there must be dull as well as amusing letters among them. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Tales x, To demonstrate that the Richardsonian principle was the best on which love could possibly be made. 1844Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. XXIX. 709/1 It is entirely unnatural, theatrical, of the Davidgian, nay, Richardsonian drama. 1930A. Birrell Et Cetera ix. 161 Doddridge's love affairs are narrated by him at Richardsonian length. 1952Essays in Crit. II. 388 Fielding ridiculed the Richardsonian use of the present tense in Shamela. 1975M. Butler J. Austen & War of Ideas xiii. 295 She [sc. Jane Austen] is the Fielding of her period, reacting against the Richardsonian individualism of the sentimental genre.
B. n. An admirer of Richardson.
1888Stevenson Some Gentlemen in Fiction ii, My own investigation of a kindred quarter of the globe (Clarissa Harlowe) has led me to set a high value on the Richardsonians. 1892A. Birrell Res Judicatæ i. 32 The great Napoleon was a true Richardsonian. 1932J. M. S. Tompkins Pop. Novel in England 1770–1800 iv. 120 Such arrant Richardsonians as..the inevitable book-sellers' hacks. |