Turnerian

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English

Etymology

From Turner +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Turnerian (comparative more Turnerian, superlative most Turnerian)

  1. Of or relating to J. M. W. Turner (circa 1775 – 1851), British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker.
    • 2010, Gordon Morris Bakken, The World of the American West:
      Among them was the “Madonna of the Prairie”—an angelic, idealistic, sunbonneted Euro-American woman, who went west with her family and aided in the Turnerian process of subduing the wilderness.
  2. Of or relating to Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), American historian, known primarily for his frontier thesis.
    • 2012, William H. Bergmann, “Introduction”, in The American National State and the Early West, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2:
      Turnerian echoes of resilient pioneers pressing into a wilderness and transforming hard-scrabble frontier into a bastion of liberty remain in contemporary scholarship even if those frontiersmen are viewed with a more critical eye for the violence they perpetrated.

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