On yellow, again

[Ian Livingston]

ah, the layers on layers of twined and braided meanings....!

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Reading another book, I read this about Aldous Huxley's allusive titles:
>
> 'Chrome Yellow' is not a direct literary allusion, but evokes Oscar Wilde
> and the scandalous
> 'Yellow BooK'.......(Of course, I pretend to remember as vague memories
> stir)....
>
> Cyprian has alluded to Oscar Wilde before....and this was a
> movement.......and such lascivious books came wrapped in yellow paper, as
> would Cyprian when he remeets the Prince....
> Yellow Book From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> Jump to: navigation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Book#column-one>,
> search <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Book#searchInput>
> This article is about the literary journal. For other uses, see Yellow
> book (disambiguation)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_book_%28disambiguation%29>
> .
>  [image: The Yellow Book, with a cover illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Yellow_book_cover.jpg> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Yellow_book_cover.jpg>
> The *Yellow Book*, with a cover illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley>
> .
> The *Yellow Book*, published in London<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London>from
> 1894 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894> to 1897<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1897>by Elkin
> Mathews <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkin_Mathews> and John Lane<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lane_%28publisher%29>,
> later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Harland>,
> was a quarterly literary periodical<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical>(priced at 5s.) that lent its name to the "Yellow" 1890s.
> It was a leading journal of the British<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom>1890s; to some degree associated with
> Aestheticism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticism> and Decadence<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadent_movement>,
> the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry,
> short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of
> paintings. Aubrey Beardsley<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley>was its first art editor, and he has been credited with the idea of the
> yellow cover, with its association with French fiction of the period. He
> obtained works by such artists as Charles Conder<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Conder>,
> William Rothenstein <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rothenstein>, John
> Singer Sargent <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent>, Walter
> Sickert <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sickert>, and Philip Wilson
> Steer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Wilson_Steer>. The literary
> content was no less distinguished; authors found within its pages during the
> three years of its existence include:
>
>    - Max Beerbohm <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Beerbohm>
>    - Arnold Bennett <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Bennett>
>    - "Baron Corvo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Corvo>"
>    - Ernest Dowson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Dowson>
>    - George Gissing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gissing>
>    - Henry James <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James>
>    - Sir Edmund Gosse <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Gosse>
>    - Richard Le Gallienne<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Le_Gallienne>
>    - Charlotte Mew <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Mew>
>    - Arthur Symons <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Symons>
>    - H. G. Wells <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells>
>    - William Butler Yeats<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats>
>
> Though Oscar Wilde <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde> never
> published anything within its pages, it was linked to him because Beardsley
> had illustrated his *Salomé<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salom%C3%A9_%28play%29>
> * and because he was on friendly terms with many of the contributors.
> Moreover, in Wilde's *The Picture of Dorian Gray* (1891), a major
> corrupting influence on Dorian is "the yellow book" which Lord Henry sends
> over to amuse him after the suicide of his first love. This "yellow book" is
> understood by critics to be À rebours<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_rebours>by Joris-Karl
> Huysmans <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joris-Karl_Huysmans>, a
> representative work of Parisian decadence that heavily influenced British
> aesthetes like Beardsley. Such books in Paris were wrapped in yellow paper
> to alert the reader to their lascivious content.
>
>
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