Context: In the Age of Reason philosophical tracts and speculations on history and human nature integrated literature with social and political developments. The inevitable reaction was the explosion of Romanticism in the later 18th century which reclaimed the imaginative and fantastical bias of old romances and folk-literature and asserted the primacy of individual experience and emotion. But as the 19th-century went on, European fiction evolved towards realism and naturalism, the meticulous documentation of real life and social trends. Much of the output of naturalism was implicitly polemical, and influenced social and political change, but 20th century fiction and drama moved back towards the subjective, emphasising unconscious motivations and social and environmental pressures on the individual. Writers such as Proust, Eliot, Joyce, Kafka and Pirandello exemplify the trend of documenting internal rather than external realities.

Question: What literary movement in the 1700s recalled the fantastical literature of medieval times?
Answer: Romanticism

Question: What elements in 19th century European literature were a reaction to the romanticism movement?
Answer: realism and naturalism

Question: What are two elements prevalent among characters at the center of romanticism works?
Answer: individual experience and emotion

Question: How did naturalism effect the greater world?
Answer: influenced social and political change

Question: 20th century literature reacted to the objectivity of naturalism in the 19th century to what?
Answer: the subjective

Question: What literary genre exploded in thee early 18th century?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: As the 18th century went on, European fiction evolved toward what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did realism influence prior to the 20th century?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did 21st century fiction and drama move back toward?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Proust, Eliot, Joy, Kafka and Pirand examplified what trend?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What happened during the Age of Reasoning?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: During the 18th century, what did European fiction evolve toward?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What effect did 20th century fiction and tragedy have on the world?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was the reaction to the Age of Reason in the later 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In the 18th century, what did European fiction evolve toward?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did 20th century realism and drama move back toward?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which writers documented the external rather than the internal?
Answer: Unanswerable