Turnerian
English
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editTurnerian (comparative more Turnerian, superlative most Turnerian)
- 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[1]:
- 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.
- 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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editof or relating to J. M. W. Turner
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