Robert W. Chambers’ “The King in Yellow,” with Ty Phelps

Written By Grace Todd

Sources Cited:

“Degenerative Decadence and Regenerative Militarism in the Invasion Narratives of Robert W. Chambers and Erskine Childers,” by Lucas C. Townsend. ProQuest, 2020. Unfortunately not available online without an institutional account.

“The Secret Chambers of the Heart: Robert W. Chambers and ‘The King in Yellow,’” by Paul StJohn Mackintosh. LA Review of Books, 2020. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-chambers-of-the-heart-robert-w-chambers-and-the-king-in-yellow/

A bunch of contextual further reading, courtesy of Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Belle_%C3%89poque

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degeneration_(Nordau)

On “The West Cure”:

“Go West, You Nervous Men,” by Matthew Wills. JStor Daily, 2019. https://daily.jstor.org/go-west-you-nervous-men/

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