Read Yellowback Novels at your peril!
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- In which I talk about yellowbacks, yellowjackets and those racy French novels of the nineteenth century.
A video in the slipstream of #Victober the event celebrating Victorian literature hosted by
Books and Things @katiejlumsden
Kate Howe @katehowereads
Marissa @BlatantlyBookish
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Mentioned also #Garbaugust created by @CriminOllyBlog
and Kelly @booksimnotreading
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Sink religion and purity and exalt vice? Sold!
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Roy, I do love The Yellow Wallpaper! This was great! 💛💛💛
Absolutely fascinating!
Fabulous treatment of the "pernicious, degrading" Yellowback. The Victorian in me is forever on a noisy smoky railroad journey immersed in some transporting plunge into some deliciously deprived glimpse into the secret theater of home in the form of a Collins or Braddon yellow back. What an utterly delightful and informative video. Thank you for this one.
Thanks Thomas!
Don't tell the Outlaw Bookseller!
He *loves* his Yellowbacks!
Oooh give me vice and degradation and a nice pair of yellow knickerbockers please. Always open to a bit of corruption. Great video Roy, really enjoyed this. Those books you have are wonderful and fabulous research 😊. Today I shall mostly be wearing yellow.
@@RaynorReadsStuff Wear it with pride!
This was such a fun dive into popular fiction in the Victorian era! Loved getting to learn more about it and to get to see some authentic editions from this time.
@katehowereads Mega thanks! I think there might be a sequel at some point 🤔
If the good Reverend thought the yellowbacks caused Stourbridge's decline into immorality, he was barking up the wrong tree!
But what of Roskolnikov's yellow aided descent?
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Ah, I will be on the lookout for yellow covers with an educated eye now. Thanks for the warning! Great video.
Thanks!
I have several Dick Donovan stories in old anthologies, so I'm quite envious of your yellow backed collection.
I hadn't heard of him until now.
Fascinating Roy! It never fails to amuse me how many times “French novels” are alluded to in Victorian novels and always in a negative way and I very much appreciated your Venn diagram 😉. I did know about the fate of the poor old Yellow Book being associated with Wilde as I’m currently reading Ella D’Arcy’s short stories and she was an editor and contributor so it came up in a Wikipedia search of her name. A real shame as they published some great stuff! The curse of the Yellow!
@josmith5992 Thanks! I was rubbish at French which has probably saved me from sinking into a moral abyss.
Most definitely 😂
Somehow, despite my love for penny dreadfuls, sensation novels, and other such icons of trashy literature, I'd never heard of these. Consequently, I also never realized these were the inspirations for the Italian giallo books, and I'm a *big* fan of giallo films. Fascinating how you can follow the throughline from these to our modern airport/supermarket paperbacks. (I could also follow the Reverend's throughline to all the modern attempts at book banning - but I wanna keep things light 🤣). I'm always curious about what captivated people's minds that culture has deemed "lowbrow" - it's certainly fun to imagine being a Victorian, passing through the station on one's way through a long journey, and deciding to pick up one of these lurid, "pernicious" novels to read on the train. Informative as always, Roy. Love the yellow windbreaker. 😁
Cheers! It's an interesting if somewhat speculative tradition
@@BartelsBookshelf It was a sequence in _The Bird with the Crystal Plumage_ involving yellow windcheaters that inspired me to buy the jacket - I'm easily led!
Was your yellow top a concious fahion choice, in order to match the yellowbacks? Fascinating subject
@backawayfromthedonkey I did want a light jacket but yes I chose yellow with this in mind - this is a covert fashion channel
@@royreadsanythingCovert fashion? As endorsed by Kim Philby except he wasn’t there at the time and that was a misspelling of his work name?
@GentleReader01 Exactly so! Soon I'll be drowning my sorrows in a Moscow apartment
@@royreadsanything LOL
Interesting video. I will add yellow books to the many types of books that can corrupt me
@@stuartgriffin1001 I've been thinking of yellow in music too - eg Never Mind the Blx
With great trepidation I decided to watch today's video, concerned that I may become corrupted from the overabundance of yellow. Instead, I learned a great deal, was highly entertained, and I found a Van Gogh I'd never seen before, to boot. Thank you, as always!
Thanks! I'd never seen that VG either. Maybe he had a lot of yellow paint left over from Sunflowers.
I see you're wearing your Peyton Place jacket.
Thanks for showing us actual examples (your Audio-Visual guru-dom is exemplary--Venn diagram in the midst of a video instantly catapults that episode into the top echelon of media). I'd always thought yellowbacks were comparable to dime novels, which were paperbound.
"Bachelor pangs" sounds like a euphemism.
Related item: is a Reclining Woman some sort of association to the Grandes Horizontales?
If the Yellow Book was so corrupting, just image what BLUE BOOK would offer the unsuspecting reader!
Weren't the original Serie Noire novels bound in yellow?
Excellent and instructive video!
Thanks - Peyton Place definitely deserved yellow covers - I'll look into your questions for the sequel 😉
I had to look at my yellow back novels. I thought I had two but they are paperbacks. I can find only one right now but they appear to be called Yellow Ninepennies published by Hodder &Stoughton. Something different then.
@ObscureBookAdventures Sort of a later version I'd say. They sound like nice books.
This is fascinating.
@DanielsBibliophagy Thanks man!
I was looking into the mention that Wilde was not carrying The Yellow Book, but another yellow-backed book. Simon Wilson, art historian and former Tate curator, wrote in an issue of The Wildean in 2021that actually it was indeed a copy of The Yellow Book. It was John Lane who planted the idea that it was another publication in an effort to disassociate the disgraced Wilde from The Yellow Book. Lane even went to so far as to say that Wilde was carrying Pierre Louÿs’s Aphrodite. But since Aphrodite was not published until a year after Wilde's arrest, it obviously could not be true. Wilson notes that according to Wilde's earliest biographers and friends, it was a copy of The Yellow Book.
@KatJack-vl8xj Ah, that makes a lot of sense! Thanks 🟨
Did you say one of them was from Carcossa publishing. . .
I don't think so though that would explain everything!
Is that where the title I AM CURIOUS YELLOW came from?
Conceivably but I think it was more to do with the colours of the Swedish flag 🇸🇪
GIGO