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Yellow Nineties 2.0

Photograph of all thirteen volumes of The Yellow Book

PI: Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Project Manager: Reg Beatty

 

Yellow Nineties 2.0 (external link)  is an open-access digital resource for the study of 8 late-Victorian little magazines produced between 1889 and 1905, a relatively brief period in which the emerging publishing genre was characterized by its aspiration to be a “Total Work of Art.” In its contents, mode of production, and materiality, this unique periodical form deliberately situated itself on the margins of fin-de-siècle industrial capitalism and mass media, creating an international forum for avant-garde art and literature by producing small-scale serials designed to be beautiful objects. Directed by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra and built collaboratively by a team of digital humanists, librarians, scholars, and students, Yellow Nineties 2.0 offers marked-up digital editions of the following titles, each situated within a media archive of promotional materials and reviews:

visit Yellow Nineties 2.0 (external link) 

 

The Yellow Nineties 2.0 Pageant Project

Project Team Lead: Fred King

The Pageant is an Aesthetic annual that published two issues in 1896 and 1897. Edited by Gleeson White and Charles Hazelwood Shannon, The Pageant features work by important figures of British Aestheticism and the international Decadence of the 1890s. The goal of this project is to present a digital edition that communicates the historical and cultural significance of this journal to late-Victorian literature and culture. In addition, an edited online edition of The Pageant will offer a significant contribution to The Yellow Nineties Online as that larger project places its ongoing study of The Yellow Book into material conversation with other significant periodicals of the fin de siècle.

visit The Pageant on the Yellow Nineties Online website (external link) 

 

The Yellow Nineties 2.0 Personography Project

Project Team Lead: Alison Hedley
Research Team: Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Reg Beatty
Collaborators: Bassam Chiblak, Dennis Denisoff, Dennis Hogan, Emilie-Andrée Jabouin

The Yellow Nineties Personography is a biographical database that documents information about the contributors to four avant-garde periodicals of 1890s Britain: The Yellow Book, The Pagan Review, The Savoy, and The Evergreen. The personography emerged out of The Yellow Nineties Online, a scholarly exhibition site and critical resource for The Yellow Book and the other three periodicals listed. With the Y90s personography, we seek to articulate the lively social and cultural networks of the artists and writers who contributed to these four publications. The biographical database of contributors will provide marked-up data we can analyze using visualization tools, opening up new lines of inquiry about the relationships and politics that shaped the late-Victorian avant-garde arts scene. We will also make this dataset available (as a spreadsheet and as TEI-conformant XML) to other researchers investigating fin-de- siècle culture and its artistic and literary productions.

visit the Y90s Personography website (external link) 

 

The Yellow Nineties 2.0 Database of Ornament Project

Project Team Lead: Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Research Team: Kaitlyn Fralick, Reg Beatty, John Connolly
Collaborators: Laura Chapnick, Chelsea Miya

A digital research tool built in OMEKA software, The Database of Ornament categorizes and indexes textual ornaments from Victorian periodicals and establishes a standard vocabulary set for markup in digital editions on The Yellow Nineties Online. The Database allows the research team to collect, display, and compare ornament types across periodical titles. The first phase of the project aims to create visual files, descriptive metadata, and a standard vocabulary for the textual ornaments in the four volumes of The Evergreen: A Northern Magazine. The second phase of the project will expand to include other Y90s periodicals with textual ornaments, such as The Savoy, The Dial, and The Greensheaf. Digital editions of these magazines on The Yellow Nineties Online will be hyperlinked to the Database to expand users’ understanding of the importance of textual ornaments to fin-de- siècle aesthetic magazines and to allow them to collect, compare, and analyze a rich visual archive of ornaments used in fin-de- siècle aesthetic magazines.

visit The Database of Ornament site

 

Project Team Lead: Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Research Team: Kaitlyn Fralick, Reg Beatty, John Connolly
Collaborators: Laura Chapnick, Chelsea Miya