Hannah Deller: The Yellow Book und seine Autorinnen (Beiträge aus der Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 15).

• Silvia Mergenthal

In his recent fictional biography of Henry James, Author, Author (2004), David Lodge describes how, at a “convivial dinner” in Paris, Henry Harland explains “his plans to publish a new high-quality literary periodical that would be more like a book than a magazine – indeed it was to be called The Yellow Book – designed to challenge and transform the stuffy Philistine world of English letters. It would publish the best work of the younger generation of writers who took their cue from recent developments in French literature, and be illustrated by a dazzling young genius called Aubrey Beardsley; but Harland was anxious to solicit contributions from Henry to give the publication what he called ‘copper-bottomed literary quality’.” (170-1)

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