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New Woman Poetics and Revisionist Mythmaking in Fin-de-Siècle Periodicals
Full text linkThis article considers how the female-authored poetry of The Yellow Book participates in a New Woman poetics that expands, reclaims, and celebrates women’s embodied experiences, both sexual and spiritual. Building on previous studies of this periodical’s gendered dynamics and aided by the research tools afforded by Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry <https://dvpp.uvic.ca/>, this study situates poems by Rosamund Marriott Watson, Edith Nesbit, and Nora Hopper in relation to broader patterns of revising classical and biblical myth evident throughout fin-de-siècle poetry. Such an approach illuminates new constellations of meaning across periodical contexts and within The Yellow Book itself, inviting re-readings of lyric poems contributed by Olive Custance, Eva Gore-Booth, and others. As these examples underscore, revisionist mythmaking played a crucial role in the New Woman project of articulating more robust expressions of desire—as operative outside a patriarchal economy and as form of spiritual ecstasy that transgresses established categories of sacred/profane
Professionalism and Ethics in Military Leadership: Lessons from Pre-colonial Africa
Full text linkThis paper examines the role of professionalism and ethics in military leadership using examples from pre-colonial Africa. The Maasai warriors of East Africa provided professional military service to their society which rose to the position of hegemony in the region. Shaka developed a professional army which, through military might, placed the Zulu in a position of hegemony in Southern Africa. However, the undermining of military ethics resulted in the decline of professionalism and eventual failure in both the Maasai military and in Shaka’s military leadership. The paper concludes that military ethics must be consistently upheld to ensure professionalism and successful military leadership
Rémy Ambühl and Andy King (eds), Documenting Warfare: Records of the Hundred Years War, Edited and Translated in Honour of Anne Curry
Full text linkThe Social Life of an Artillery Battery: A Historical Anthropology of Malta’s Heavy Anti-Aircraft Defence
Full text linkEighty years after the Second World War ‘Siege of Malta’ memories of air-raid shelters and wartime hunger live on. All of Malta’s war museums are related to authentic sites from the conflict, and commemorations often take place at specific monuments and historical locations. However, other sites linked to the war remain discarded in public memory. Anti-aircraft batteries are a case in point: a network of concrete structures and guns built to hit back at Malta’s aerial attackers. This article explores the origins of these sites and, much more importantly, the social life that blossomed within them as a unique way of being. It examines the close connections forged between gunners and their guns, and it explores how anti-aircraft sites have been both memorialised and forgotten. 
Achtsame Wandlung und Erkenntnis in der Kunsttherapie: Vergleich von drei Fallstudien (German Version)
No full textDiese Gemeinschaftsarbeit untersucht die Anwendbarkeit des Modells der ‚Vier Phasen der Achtsamen Wandlung‘ nach Starke (2014, 2019) auf kunsttherapeutische Prozesse zur Analyse des Erkenntnisprozesses von Klient:innen. Ausgangspunkt und theoretische Grundlage dieser Arbeit war die Fallstudie von Reiter (2022), die sich dieser Fragestellung in Bezug auf die Wirksamkeit kunsttherapeutischer Begleitung widmete und diese anhand von Interviews mit Klient:innen belegen und erweitern konnte. Die von Andergassen (2021) und Wiesinger (2021) unter anderen Rahmenbedingungen und Settings durchgeführten Studien wurden herangezogen, um zu ergründen, ob sich diese Modell-Phasen auch hier identifizieren lassen und welche Schlussfolgerungen für die weitere Forschung gezogen werden könnten.
Die vorliegende Studie liefert Anhaltspunkte dafür, dass sich Starkes Modell als Analyseinstrument zur Untersuchung der Wirksamkeit der Kunsttherapie in Bezug auf den Erkenntnisprozess bei diesen drei Fällen eignete. Jedoch müssen die Ergebnisse durch weitere Fallforschung verifiziert werden.
Key words
Achtsame Haltung, Erkenntnisprozess, Vier Phasen der Achtsamen Wandlung, Gestaltungsprozess, Gestaltungselement, Wandlungsprozes
Beyond the Ashtray (English Version)
No full textAshtrays portray a recurrent theme in the art therapy sessions with people dealing with addiction, often provoking ambivalent reactions to the therapist. Approaching the complex dynamics of addiction, I have found many similarities between the needs which both the addictive substance and the creation of the ashtray aim to cover. Through the creative process and the support of the therapeutic relationship, there can be a shift in the function of this artwork, from the destructive usability to the constructive symbolism. The ashtray can thereby pose a metaphor for integration and containing, representing the development of a more resilient and autonomous self.
Key words
art therapy, addiction, symbol, self-destruction, self-healing, containin
Review: Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa, Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature (Routledge, 2025)
Full text linkJapan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature draws on diverse literary genres – ‘the French novel, the modernist novella in proximity to the German Bildungsroman or the Anglo-Saxon short or ghost story’[i] – to explore how the ‘poetic aestheticization’ of Japan played a crucial role within ‘an “eclectic” adoption of modernity’ in fin-de-siècle literature both from Japan and the West (p. 1, p. 6). Following in the footsteps of Japanese studies scholars such as Rachael Hutchinson and Mark Williams (Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature, 2006), Fukuzawa argues that a ‘mutual process of exoticism and autoexoticism’ shaped ‘the transnational modernization process in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)’ (p. 2). This work is therefore a valuable addition to the trend, carried by scholars such as Stefano Evangelista and Jennifer Yee, approaching Japonisme and exoticism as multipolar phenomena at the intersection of discourses on colonialism, modernity, and self-identity.
[i] Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa, Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature (Routledge, 2025), p. 212. All subsequent references are provided inline
The End of the ‘Marriage Question’: Bad Romance in the Yellow Book Stories of Ella D’Arcy, Evelyn Sharp, and Ada Leverson
Full text linkBy the end of the nineteenth century, a wave of legal reforms had passed into law in England, illustrating the way in which reality often failed to live up to the ideal of companionate marriage lauded in conduct books. The Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 permitted a woman to sue for divorce on the grounds of adultery and desertion or brutality (a husband could sue for divorce based solely on adultery); it was amended in 1878 to permit a woman to seek a legal separation if her husband was convicted of assaulting her. The Married Women’s Property Act of 1870 allowed women to keep their earnings after marriage and inheritances or gifts up to £200, and the Married Women’s Property Act of 1882 updated this to grant every married woman sole possession of all her earnings and inheritances. In 1886, the Maintenance in Case of Desertion Act expanded causes for separation to include desertion and neglect; in 1895 persistent cruelty was added to the list of causes for formal separation, and the law no longer required prior conviction and jailing of the husband.[i] All of these laws echoed broader cultural debates about the ways in which the realities of marriage often harboured violence, economic inequality, and a lack of mutual love, respect, and understanding, despite the pervasive idea – registered in popular fiction – that marriage was a route to happiness.
[i] For an overview of Victorian marriage, property, and child custody laws, see Jennifer Phegley, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England (Praeger, 2012), p. xvii
Yellow Book Sisters in The Dream Garden: A New Woman Network
No full textIn her autobiography The Sheltering Tree (1939), critically-neglected New Woman writer Netta Syrett (1865-1943) records her pride as editor of children’s annual The Dream Garden (1905): ‘I think I had a right to be proud of my Dream Garden, which by now should be a rarity worth the attention of book collectors, if only for the names of some of the contributors!’[i] In a further comment that is both self-effacing and self-congratulating, she writes, ‘I marvel at my boldness in asking such distinguished people to contribute to a more or less private venture […] only a limited number were published’.[ii] The wealth of notable writers and artists boasted by the contents page offers insight into Netta’s creative network and her esteemed place within it. While this list features well-known male writers including Laurence Housman and Arthur Ransome, the contributors are overwhelmingly female. They include artist, author and playwright Constance Smedley (1876-1941), who founded the International Lyceum Club for Women Artists and Writers in 1904 (of which Netta was chairwoman in 1906); Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864-1942), hailed as the first hunger-striking suffragette (in 1909); Slade-trained artist Alice Woodward (1862-1951), a founding member of the Women’s Guild of Arts (1907); and feminist artist, writer, and editor Pamela Colman Smith (1878-1951). The Dream Garden, like Netta’s autobiography, evidences her ‘genius for friendship’: that is, her ability to form mutually-beneficial career-enabling companionships and creative partnerships, where ‘socialising becomes part of [her] artistry’.[iii]
[i] Netta Syrett, The Sheltering Tree (Geoffrey Bles, 1939), p. 152; The Dream Garden: A Children’s Annual, ed. by Netta Syrett (John Baillie, 1905). Henceforth Netta Syrett is referred to as ‘Netta’ and her sister Nellie Syrett will be referred to as ‘Nellie’, to avoid confusion due to their shared surname.
[ii] Syrett, Sheltering Tree, pp. 149–50.
[iii] Richard Le Gallienne, The Romantic ’90s (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925), pp.191–92; Joseph Thorne, ‘Decadent Sociability and Material Culture at the Fin de Siècle’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, PhD thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019) <http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11254/1/2019thornephd.pdf2019> [accessed 27 September 2023], p. 1
Ella and Marion Hepworth Dixon: ‘What’s in a Name?’
Full text link‘The name, of course, [...] the name counts for something. Your late father’s name carries weight with a certain section of the public’, declares a fictional editor in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s seminal New Woman novel, The Story of a Modern Woman (1894).[i] One cannot help wondering if the name ‘Hepworth Dixon’ resonated in the same way for Henry Harland and John Lane, the editors of The Yellow Book, which began that same year. The name had definitely acquired a certain notoriety earlier in the century when William Hepworth Dixon (1821-1879) had been editor of The Athenæum from 1853 to 1869, but by 1894 two of his daughters, Marion (1856-1936) and her younger sister, Ella (1857-1932), had begun to make names for themselves in the literary world.
[i] Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Story of a Modern Woman (Broadview, 2004), p. 108. Italics in original. Initially serialised in twelve weekly instalments in the Lady’s Pictorial between January and March 1894, then published in book form later that year by Heinemann in London and Cassell in New York, the novel has since been republished several times, first in 1990 in the Merlin Radical Fiction series. All subsequent page references will refer to the Broadview edition