The area between the Rio Grande and the Nueces River, which included Zavala County, became disputed territory known as the Wild Horse Desert, where neither the Republic of Texas nor the Mexican government had clear control.
Romanticism: The Romantic Age. Romanticism was a movement in literature, art, and music that emphasized feeling over thought. In many ways it was a reaction to The Enlightenment, or at least it was a reaction against the philosophic notion that human actions were guided by the inexorable forces of economics, sociology, and physics.
Naturalism was a literary haybe or tendency from the 1880s to 1930s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.aturalism was an outgrowth of literary realism, a prominent literary movement in mid-19th-century France and elsewhere.