Romanticism, by David Blayney Brown

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Romanticism was a way of feeling, rather than a style of art. Artists from 1775 to 1830 in particular started looking for a way of personal expression and individual liberation and the idea of the “Romantics” was transferred to the “idea of art”.

Art, and the feelings conveyed, became a tool for social change.

The feeling in “Where the Crawdads Sing” could be labeled romanticism. Just reading the book brings a feeling almost like a song to your mind. You feel the story.

I also think of Stendhal when he states in his book, “Love” "I want to impose silence on my heart, which thinks it has much to say. I constantly fear having written nothing but a sigh, when I believe I have set down a truth."