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Aestheticism in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray The novel is most important in the Victorian Era so The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is part of a wide range of many good and important novels for this period Oscar Wilde s only novel can be considered a revolutionary piece of literature not only because it broke out of the traditional value and belief pattern of the Victorian society but also because it replaced the traditional pattern with new concepts coined by Wilde and his former tutors Oscar Fingal O Flaherty Wills Wilde was an Irish writer but also a controversial one who was remarked for his natural style of writing and also for his remarkable themes He was a person interested in concepts from the aesthetic sphere putting the beauty of things on a higher level than the moral and social values Aestheticism was supported in Germany by J W von Goethe and in England by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle The origin of the word aesthetic cames from the late 18th century in the sense relating to perception by the senses from Greek aisthētikos from aisthēta perceptible things from aisthesthai perceive
