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 prospectus advertised, it was still a part of the vanguard of cultural debate which typified the main struggles of the "Yellow Nineties". Its variegated array of contributors associated "The Yellow Book" with the "impressionism, feminism, naturalism, dandyism, symbolism and classicism all participate[d in the politics of decadence in the nineties". Sabine Doran writes (in her "The Culture of Yellow, or, The Visual Politics of Late Modernity") that "from the moment of its conception, "The Yellow Book" presents itself as having a close relationship with the culture of scandal; it is, in fact, one of the progenitors of this culture."