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Chapter 7 of 10
Movements
What each was reacting to.
From Romanticism to Realism
Romantic writers put feeling, nature and the individual first. Realists answered with ordinary life and social conditions described without idealisation.
- The nineteenth-century novel grew with mass literacy and serial publication.
- Naturalism pushed realism towards determinism.
Modernism and after
Modernists fragmented form after the upheavals of the early twentieth century. Postmodern writing turned to self-awareness, pastiche and doubt about grand narratives.