Citations:japannish

English citations of japannish

• 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, page 44:

  Classicality, indeed, which does not satisfy one's sense as real or truly living, but which glitters with a certain genial, if perhaps almost meretricious half-japannish splendor […]

• 1922 July, Stanley T. Williams, “A Forgotten Critic of Literature”, in Southwest Review, volume 7, →JSTOR, page 304:

  For he is never led astray by the brilliant, the unsound, or the japannish.

• 1925, Stanley T. Williams, “A Philistine Critic of Literature”, in The London Mercury, volume 12, page 81:

  But such naïve criticisms stripped of japannish rhetoric, concerning all writers from Shakespeare to Mrs. Meek, open our eyes.

• 1946, Stanley T. Williams, “Experiments in Poetry: Sidney Lanier and Emily Dickinson”, in Robert E. Spiller et al., editors, Literary History of the United States, volume 2, page 901:

  Yet his originalities of both content and form, despite his deep personal sincerity, have a japannish quality.

• 1953 May, Stanley T. Williams, “Some Spanish Influences on American Fiction: Mark Twain to Willa Cather”, in Hispania, volume 36, →JSTOR, page 134:

  We think of the Spanish elements in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, in Bret Harte's japannish tales of señorita and hacienda, or in Melville's subtle application of these elements for his symbolism in Benito Cereno.