{"id":97,"date":"2024-03-25T12:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/?p=97"},"modified":"2024-03-31T22:26:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T02:26:54","slug":"fq-iv-vi-42-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/2024\/03\/25\/fq-iv-vi-42-29\/","title":{"rendered":"FQ IV.vi.42-49"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">A change of scenery (many thanks to the keeper of Castle Logan) and the malaise of break prompted a slow and reflective meandering across a mere 8 stanzas to the end of canto vi. We saw Artegall work his way into Britomart\u2019s heart \u201cwith fair entreatie and sweet blandishment\u201d and feminine rhyme (brought her\/wrought her). John notes the rhyme echoed those from the beginning of the canto\u2014a feature rendered noticeable by its shorter length. MK brought us back to the book-defining question of friendship; are Britomart and Artegall friends? We discussed how the ambiguity of their relationship depends on gender confusion (with some looking ahead to Book 5\u2019s gender transgression as punishment) and traced some dominant discourses around the problematic of friendship with the help of our resident classical receptionists. Friendship and its gender was an enduring concern in English politics; Will took us through the problem of the polis in English Republicanism and its manifestation in stanza 47, with reference to \u2018fate\u2019 and \u2018misfortune\u2019 as indexing a kind of natal slavery for women. This prompted a discussion of temporality and terminology: \u2018Republicanism before the Republic\u2019 served as a useful formulation to consider an idealized intellectual humanism, distinct from the enactment of these political values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some recommendations: Georg Simmel\u2019s \u201cThe Adventurer\u201d, from John, on the ideal number of people in an adventure; James Hankins\u2019 <i>Virtue Politics<\/i>. Some threats: a splinter group on English Republicanism (or, more aptly riffed John, an \u201cOxymoron Club.\u201d) On to canto 7! [CM]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A change of scenery (many thanks to the keeper of Castle Logan) and the malaise of break prompted a slow and reflective meandering across a mere 8 stanzas to the end of canto vi. We saw Artegall work his way into Britomart\u2019s heart \u201cwith fair entreatie and sweet blandishment\u201d and feminine rhyme (brought her\/wrought her)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/edspenser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}