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Definition of Hugoesque
1. Adjective. In the manner of Victor Hugo.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hugoesque
Literary usage of Hugoesque
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"We wondered what new Russian genius had written this romantic, full-blooded,
full-bodied Hugoesque. un-Russian novel. Un-Russian in that it is neither ..."
2. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"The rest of the current French work is full of loose Hugoesque rhetoric, sociology,
mucked mysticism for the multitude, aqueous bombast, and all the fluid ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"It is as far as possible from the dramatic tours de force in Hugoesque fiction;
it is not a conclusion that is urged or an effect that is solicited: it is ..."
4. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"In his scheme of art there is no place for excess, however magnificent and
Shakespearean—for exuberance, however overpowering and Hugoesque. ..."
5. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"Both are Hugoesque, both highly suggestive: "The Revolution is humanity's change
of life. Say what you will about it: whether good or evil, ..."
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