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According to Stanley Weintraub, " The color of The Yellow Book was an appropriate reflection of the ' Yellow Nineties ," a decade in which Victorianism was giving way among the fashionable to Regency attitudes and French influences ; For yellow was not only the decor of the notorious and dandified pre-Victorian Regency, but also of the allegedly wicked and decadent French novel.

" If The Yellow Book was not as " daring " as its introduction advertised, it was still a part of the vanguard of cultural debate which typified the main struggles of the " yellow ' 90s ".

Its variegated array of contributors associated The Yellow Book with the " impressionism, feminism, naturalism, dandyism, symbolism and classicism all participate in the politics of decadence in the nineties.