The influence of
Arcadianism was thus widespread in learned culture, and thus, argues Minor, understanding the Arcadian ideology helps us to understand eighteenth-century taste.
The first strike against Arcadianism at this historical moment was
in general also meant the repudiation of Arcadianism. As the example
abandon the comforts of Arcadianism, is the conclusion of an exercise in
The second concerns the marriage contract of Gloria and Narcissus: "Such contracts made as these, may be / Esteem'd a blessed Unity." (20) In both cases, however, the message seems to be that marriage (like Charles' arcadianism) no longer does its political work in a dependable way.
For the criticism of arcadianism, see in addition to Patterson, Salzman, Smith, and Potter, esp.
"Arcadianism and Counterrevolution in Theophania." Unpublished typescript.
It is innovative in its diction, which tries to be modern (in its use of dialogue and direct discourse) without relinquishing an assumed and very conscious
arcadianism; in its structure, which is of the romantic type but which makes use of the classical mould of the epic poem (Camoes' return to his homeland recalls that of other classical heroes, that of Ulysses to his native Ithaca and that of Aeneas to Italy, more specifically to the region of Lazio, to found a new nation there); and in its nationalistic message the poem is also strongly innovative, since contrary to what one would expect from an epic text, where the figure of the hero is exalted, Camoes comes out of Garrett's poem diminished and totally identified with a weakened, destroyed, emaciated and enfeebled Portugal.
Thus, observes McWilliam, the best that the Fourierists "could inspire [was Dominique] Papety's palled reworking of standard-issue
Arcadianism" (322).
Certainly the innocent and high-minded
Arcadianism of Frederick Law Otmsted and Calvert Vaux, intrepidly struggling to realize their vision for the good of "hundreds of thousands of tired workers" in Manhattan's Central Park, is quite different from the mythologies of race and sex that have condemned countless mdlions to oppression or worse throughout history.
5) Romantic
arcadianism (Carlos Castaneda and The Whole Earth Catalog replaced by the L.
Fourier could inspire only Papety's 'pallid reworking of standard-issue
Arcadianism' (p.322).
44 Cavendish was not alone in attempting to reform romance from within: see Patterson, 1984, on the critique of romance and
arcadianism in prose romances of 1650s and 60s.
