A literary and artistic movement that celebrates idealized rural or pastoral life, inspired by the romantic vision of ancient Arcadia.
From Arcadian + -ism (suffix indicating a movement, practice, or system of beliefs). The movement flourished in European literature from the Renaissance onward.
Arcadianism was basically the original 'glamping'—rich city poets wrote fantasies about shepherds and simple country life while sitting in their comfortable palaces, creating an imaginary past that never actually existed.
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