The Yellow Book’s Decorative Women: Critiquing the Victorian Aesthetic Ideal
© 2020 Sabrina Pavelic, Ryerson University. An Introduction The Victorian ideal and the New Woman seem, at first, to be dichotomies of …
The New Woman and The Yellow Book: Commercializing The Female Body
© Samantha Baran, Ryerson University, 2020 Women in the 1890s Women were the inspiration and guardians for civilization in 1890s Victorian England. …
Aesthetic Qualities among Shifting Gender Roles in Ella D’Arcy’s Irremediable
© Copyright 2020 Kenroy Ricketts, Ryerson University Introduction Ella D’Arcy’s Irremediable examines the social constructs of gender roles and cross-class relations while …
Death in The Decadent Movement: Henry Harland’s “A Responsibility”
© Copyright 2019 Dararrtu Abdullahi, Ryerson University Introduction The Yellow Book, a British quarterly literary periodical with a print run from 1894 to …
Diversity in Gender via Genre in Vernon Lee’s “Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady”
©2019 Lana Bosnjak, Ryerson University An Introduction to The Yellow Book: an Avante-Garde Quarterly The Yellow Book was published by John Lane …
The Improbable Juxtaposition of Religion and Morality During the Fin-de-Siècle in Baron Corvo’s “Stories Toto Told Me”
©2019 Rachel Bowman, Ryerson University INTRODUCTION Baron Corvo’s fictional literary works entitled “Stories Toto Told Me” are a series of short stories …
Defending Cosmetics and Decadence in Max Beerbohm’s “The Happy Hypocrite”
© Copyright 2018 Hannah Johnston, Ryerson University In October 1896, Max Beerbohm’s “The Happy Hypocrite” was published in Volume 11 of …
Support of New Woman Ideology in “The Invisible Prince” and The Yellow Book, Volume 10
© Copyright 2017 Olivia Moore, Ryerson University The publication of “The Invisible Prince”, and the tenth volume of The Yellow Book in …
Evelyn Sharp’s “In Dull Brown” and The Yellow Book on the New Woman
© Copyright Julia Saccucci, 2017 Introduction In a British periodical called the Temple Bar, there was an article by an observer who …