ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Aestheticism has its roots in German Romanticism. Though the term “aesthetic” derives from Greek, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s Aesthetica (1750) made important use of it in German before Immanuel Kant incorporated it into his philosophy in the Critique of Judgment (1790).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Aesthetic Movement, also known as “art for art’s sake, ” permeated British culture during the latter part of the 19th century, as well as spreading to other countries such as the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Aesthetic movement denounced the sober morality and middle-class values that characterized the Victorian Age and embraced beauty as the chief pursuit of both art and life. The movement is often considered to have ended with Oscar Wilde’s trials, which began in 1895.

Detailed explanation-4: -Oscar Wilde is known as the father of the Aesthetic Movement as he was vocally interested only in the literary study of beauty and aesthetics. He was the first major writer to challenge classic literary structure and cause controversy for doing so.