Research Guides: ENGL 256: Pre-Raphaelites, Aesthetes and Decadents (HC): Yellow Book & Savoy

Copies of The Yellow Book & The Savoy (HC and online)

The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly
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London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, The Bodley Head; Boston: Copeland & Day, 1894–1897.
The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly
Digitized copies of The Yellow Book from the University of Michigan made available through the HathiTrust digital library.
Yellow Nineties Online
Scholarly digital editions of The Yellow Book edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. Currently includes introductions to volumes I-VII, as well as promotional material and related resources.
The Savoy
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Volumes 1–8
London: Leonard Smithers, 1896
The Savoy
Digitized copies of The Savoy made available through the HathiTrust digital library.

Selected Print Sources

The Yellow Book by Margaret D. Stetz; Mark Samuels Lasner
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ISBN: 9780914630135
Publication Date: 2005-05-31
A commemorative exhibition of the one-hundredth anniversary of The Yellow Book, the most important and notorious British magazine in the 1890's, the first to include market high Culture to mass audiences in England and America through modern advertising strategies. It includes a 40-page essay, illustrations, and a cheklist of the exhibition held at Houghton Library in 1994.
The Early Nineties by James G. Nelson
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ISBN: 0674222253
Publication Date: 1971-01-01
A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors by Katherine Mix
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Publication Date: 1960
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines by Peter Brooker; Andrew Thacker
ISBN: 9780199211159
Publication Date: 2009-06-15
The first of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of 'little magazines' which were so instrumental in introducing the new writing and ideas that came to constitute literary and artistic modernism in the UK and Ireland.
Publisher to the Decadents by James G. Nelson
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ISBN: 0271019743
Publication Date: 2000-04-01
Publisher to the Decadents chronicles the experience of Leonard Smithers (1861-1907), a key figure in the literary culture of late Victorian England. The years between 1895 and 1900 were Smithers's glory years when he managed to publish a number of books illustrated by Beardsley, a magazine known as the Savoy, and books of verse by Ernest Dowson and Arthur Symons that have proved to be the finest expression of the Decadent Movement. Throughout his career Smithers sought to produce attractive, well-made books that were tastefully designed and printed. This book provides expansive insight into the prizes and pitfalls of an early English publisher of the decadent Nineties.

Bibliography

Allison, Jonathan, and James Gordon Nelson. Bound for the 1890s : essays on writing and publishing in honor of James G. Nelson. High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2006. Print.

Brake, Laurel. "Endgames: The Politics of The Yellow Book or, Decadence, Gender and the the New Journalism." Essays and Studies 48 (1995): 38-64. Print.

---. Subjugated Knowledges : Journalism, Gender, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press, 1994. Print.

Brooker, Peter, and Andrew Thacker. The Oxford critical and cultural history of modernist magazines. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.

Chan, Winnie. The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s. New York: Routledge, 2007. Print.

Claes, Koenraad, and Marysa Demoor. "The Little Magazine in the 1890s: Towards a 'Total Work of Art.'" English Studies 91:2 (2010): 133–149.

Diebel, Anne. ""The Dreary Duty": Henry James, The Yellow Book, and Literary Personality." The Henry James Review 32.1 (2011): 45-59. Project MUSE. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.

Dowling, Linda. "The Decadent and the New Woman in the 1890's." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 33:4 (1979): 434–453.

Hughes, Linda K. "Women Poets and Contested Spaces in 'The Yellow Book.'" Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 44:4 (2004): 849–872.

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Jordan, John O, and Robert L Patten. Literature in the marketplace: Nineteenth-century British publishing and reading practices. Cambridge, England; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Print.

Kooistra, Lorraine Janzen. "A Modern Illustrated Magazine: The Yellow Book's Poetics of Format." Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Ninteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures. Ed. Luisa Calè and Patrizia Di Bello. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 128–144. Print.

May, J. Lewis (James Lewis). John Lane and the Nineties. J. Lane, The Bodley head,, 1936. Print.

Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow; the Yellow Book and Its Contributors. University of Kansas Press,, 1960. Print.

Nelson, James G. The Early Nineties : a View from the Bodley Head. Harvard University Press,, 1971. Print.

Samuels Lasner, Mark. The Yellow Book: a Checklist and Index / Beardsley, Aubrey,; 1872-1898. London: The Eighteen Nineties Society, 1998. Print. Occasional Series ;; No. 8; Variation: Occasional Series (Eighteen Nineties Society) ; No. 8.

Stetz, Margaret D. 1953-(Margaret Diane), and Houghton Library. The Yellow Book: a Centenary Exhibition / Samuels Lasner, Mark,; 1952-. Cambridge [Mass.]: Houghton Library, 1994. Print.

Turner, Mark W. "Urban Encounters and Visual Play in the Yellow Book." Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers. Ed. Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 138–160. Print.

Weintraub, Stanley. The Yellow Book, Quintessence of the Nineties. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1964. Print.

Windholz, Anne M. "The Woman Who Would be Editor: Ella d'Arcy and the 'Yellow Book.'" Victorian Periodicals Review 29:2 (1996): 116–130.