Culture of Yellow

Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Van Gogh's Yellow Van Gogh: From Yellow Books to the Yellow House The Yellow Christ: Van Gogh and Gauguin After the Burning: Francis Bacon and van Gogh Reading Bacon and van Gogh with Friederike Mayr cker The Afterlife of Van Gogh: Antonin Artaud, Alain Resnais, and Akira Kurosawa Chapter 2: The Scandal of Yellow Books: From the Yellow Nineties to Modernism The Color of the Hour: Beardsley's Yellow Book Scandal: The Arrest of Oscar Wilde Salome's Yellow Veils Wilde's "Symphony in Yellow" Wilde and the Dispersion of Scandal in Joyce's Ulysses Stephen's "yellow stick" and Bloom's "yellow habit" Chapter 3: Yellow Passions The Yellow of Contempt: Baudelaire, Tristan Corbi re, Frantisek Kupka The Yellow of Disgust: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" Camera Lucida: Gilman and Albrecht D rer "A film of yellow light": Virginia Woolf's "A Mark on the Wall" Chapter 4: "The little patch of yellow wall": Proust "I Love Yellow": Balzac's Eug nie Grandet Proust and Vermeer's View of Delft The Yellow Patch: Mieke Bal and Georges Didi-Huberman Proust and Vermeer's The Goldweigher The Death of Bergotte and the Resurrection of the Author Proust's Two (Open) Secrets Albertine and the Yellow Butterfly Chapter 5: The "Yellow Peril" and the Visual Politics of Race Staging the "Yellow Peril": Richard Wagner and Wilhelm II Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu Jack London's "An Unparalleled Invasion" "Yellow children": Soloviev's Pan Mongolism A Yellow Russia: Bely's Petersburg The Yellow Rhapsody: Kandinsky and Eisenstein "I am a yellow stinking flower": Hans Henry Jahnn's Perugia "Follow the yellow brick road!": The Wizard of OZ Departing in Yellow: Josef Albers and Helmut Federle Chapter 6: Yellow Stars and the Visual Politics of Genocide The Stars of Rainer Maria Rilke Paul Celan's "Yellow Flood" Rilke's "new stars" and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Mendel Grossman's Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto Jir Weil's

Sabine Doran is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Director of the German Program at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She pursued her doctoral studies at Stanford University, USA, where she was a visiting researcher in the Department of Comparative Literature from 1996 to 1999, and at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, where she earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 2004. She has also taught at Oberlin College (2003-04) and at the Summer University of the Free University of Berlin. Her published work includes articles on film, film theory, German literature, and color, in such journals as Gegenwartsliteratur and The Comparatist.

What do Vincent Van Gogh, Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde, Tristan Corbiere, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust all have in common? Yellow! Through yellow-tinted lenses, Sabine Doran's brilliant and wonderfully suggestive book uncovers the cultural unconscious of late modernity - in all its glory and abjection, its epiphanic radiance and indelible stigmata. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Managing Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature In this fascinating book, Sabine Doran invites us to contemplate the amazing variety of uses and meanings the color yellow has acquired in its long history and particularly in the late modern period. This is not just a compendium of literary and artistic cases in which yellow takes on a powerful significance. It also offers a telling critique of cultural color theory and conceptions of color symbolism that will be inspiring to scholars in many fields. -- W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and English, University of Chicago, USA, editor of Critical Inquiry