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== Title(s) ==  
:''The Yellow Book'' (1894-1897)<ref>[[Works Cited |WD]]</ref>

== Editor(s) ==  
:Aubrey Beardsley (1894-1895)
:Henry Harland (1894-1897)<ref>[[Works Cited |WD]]</ref>

== Overview ==  
Associated with the aesthetic and decadent movement of the 1890s, ''The Yellow Book'' was a periodical published in London from April 1894-1897 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and edited by American Henry Harland.<ref>[[Works Cited|WD]].</ref> ''The Yellow Book'' is often credited as one of the quintessential journals of the 'fin de siècle' temperament of the 1890s.<ref>[[Works Cited|WD]].</ref>  Despite being targeted towards readers who were interested in the arts, the magazine attempted to reach a larger audience. Intended to “affront the bourgeois” with its irreverent and “iconoclastic spirit,” the journal was part of the “aesthetic revolt against materialism and practicality.”<ref>[[Works Cited|WD]].</ref> The yellow color of the cover was itself a reflection of this attitude: the color was not only representative of “the decor of the notorious and dandified pre-Victorian Regency, but also of the allegedly wicked and decadent French novel."<ref>Mary Beth Mcgrath, “The Yellow Book,” ''British and European Aesthetes, Decadents, and Symbolists'', 16 Oct 2003, University Scholars Program, 18 Oct 2008. http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/victorian/decadence/yellowbook.html.</ref>  Famous contributors include William Butler Yeats, Henry James, Max Beerbohm, and Edmund Gosse.<ref>[[Works Cited|WD]].</ref>  

Most of the literature in the magazine was short fiction, and ''The Yellow Book'' is credited as one of the first British magazines that helped to advance the careers of writers through this genre.<ref>[[Works Cited|WD]].</ref>  An illustrated quarterly, ''The Yellow Book'' had an equal interest in both art and literature, and also included the contributions of many artists. The magazine’s layout also reflected the publishers’ and editors’ desire to create something new. It was unusually long (one volume reaches up to 300 pages), and relatively expensive (5 shillings) compared to other journals.  In addition, it contained no “serials, political commentary, interviews, or reviews,” and “there were no advertisements except publishers' lists.”<ref>[[Works Cited|WD]].</ref>  


== For Further Reading ==  

Denisoff, Dennis and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Eds. [http://www.1890s.ca/ ''The Yellow Nineties Online.''] Web. 20 March 2015.

"Yellow Book, The." [[Works Cited|''Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals'']].

== Notes ==
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Submitted by: [[Wong, Belinda: section 1, Fall 2008]]

Submitted by: [[Sumbot, Nathan: section 1, Winter 2011]]

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