{"id":125,"date":"2017-02-15T09:59:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T14:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=125"},"modified":"2017-02-15T09:59:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T14:59:25","slug":"reply-to-rachel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/reply-to-rachel\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply to Rachel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel,<\/p>\n<p>I agree completely with your response to Kacie on the seeming contradiction in Spenser&#8217;s depiction of women. I think it is more a question of how Spenser is fashioning an image of Queen Elizabeth as a monarch than how he views women in general. The poem is a glorification of the monarch and the nation, and Spenser advocates for extreme chastity because it was a glorified virtue at the time. Of course, this appears to contradict our own modern concept of feminism, but I think we must read the text with an appreciation for its historical context. I am not sure if we should consider Spenser an early feminist; I am more interested in the ways Spenser projects an image of the queen as &#8220;an ideal object on which to practice their art of praise&#8230;thereby gaining the authority which they had lacked&#8221; (4), as Hamilton discusses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel, I agree completely with your response to Kacie on the seeming contradiction in Spenser&#8217;s depiction of women. I think it is more a question of how Spenser is fashioning an image of Queen Elizabeth as a monarch than how he views women in general. The poem is a glorification of the monarch and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}