Oscar Wilde and the Aestheticism Movement

Aesthetic Movement was extensively advertised (Campbell , 2006 . Wilde had an unwavering faith in his mission . He clearly stated that he had no fears regarding the future (Raby , 1988 . Gere and Hoskins (2000 ) states that through Wilde 's presentation , aestheticism developed to a cult of artificiality . The popular plays produced by Wilde , according to Spektor (2009 , were comedies of conduct that were closer to Restoration comedies than the Victorian plays . Until the time he was tried Wilde carried the Aesthetic Movement as an excellent performance piece , an approach that was supported by

the British society , due to the fact that he never seemed to take himself too seriously . Wilde the aesthete introduced an experience for continental values and finally what Victorian society basically held to be continental profligacy (Raby , 1988 . Much early criticism of aestheticism summed up the conventional Victorian move of calling Aesthetic Movement dissolute both for its stress on art as an unethical venture and for its inflections of homosexuality (Spektor 2009 . Contemporary critics have tried to contextualize the aesthetic movement by considering literary , social , as well as artistic movements that resulted in aesthesis along with those that were later influenced by it . In the process , they have a propensity of primarily looking at its representations of sexuality and gender instead of on the form and qualities of the art under discussion . Paradoxically , the modern criticism almost at all times put both art as well as homosexuality back into the Victorian culture . This explains how cultural stance of aestheticism and its approaches about sexuality and gender were determined by the principles of the larger Victorian society (McDermott 2007

Lambourne (1996 ) states that Wilde became one of the most celebrated playwrights of the late Victorian phase in Britain with a series of social satires . Wilde claimed to have taken a...