{"product_id":"the-politics-of-grace-in-early-modern-literature-hardback-9781503638266","title":"The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature (Hardback) 9781503638266","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDeni Kasa (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503638266\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e250 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.438 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book is provocative, original, and timely, and takes an acutely political perspective to understand the religion and literature of the seventeenth century. It is sure to play an important role in shaping the field of early modern literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Brian Cummings, University of York \"Kasa reveals the dynamics at play in a Protestant literary culture in which ideas of empire, nation and individual agency were imagined anew. An important contribution to our understanding of political and religious thought as well as to literature studies.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Sarah Mortimer, University of Oxford \"A very fine and insightful book, highly recommended to all who study the 17th century.\"—Cliff Cunningham, \u003ci\u003eSun News Austin\u003c\/i\u003e \"Deni Kasa's illuminating new study performs a series of readings that excavate a shared religio-political vocabulary of grace in a temporally broad swath of early modern English poetry.\"—Nicholas Dolan, \u003ci\u003eLiterature and Theology\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Grace\u003c\/i\u003e effectively demonstrates the centrality of the concept of grace to a well-defined canon of poets. The book will interest historians for its development of the role of poetry in theological and political debates in the early modern period in England.\"—Scott Robinson, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Religious History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of how early modern poets used the theological concept of grace to reimagine their political communities. The Protestant belief that salvation was due to \u003ci\u003esola gratia\u003c\/i\u003e, or grace alone, was originally meant to inspire religious reform. But, as Deni Kasa shows, poets of the period used grace to interrogate the most important political problems of their time, from empire and gender to civil war and poetic authority. Kasa examines how four writers—John Milton, Edmund Spenser, Aemilia Lanyer, and Abraham Cowley—used the promise of grace to develop idealized imagined communities, and not always egalitarian ones. Kasa analyzes the uses of grace to make new space for individual and collective agency in the period, but also to validate domination and inequality, with poets and the educated elite inserted as mediators between the gift of grace and the rest of the people.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOffering a literary history of politics in a pre-secular age, Kasa shows that early modern poets mapped salvation onto the most important conflicts of their time in ways missed by literary critics and historians of political thought. Grace, Kasa demonstrates, was an important means of expression and a way to imagine impossible political ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: The Politics of Grace\u003cbr\u003e  1. Equity and Grace in Edmund Spenser's \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2. Grace, Gender, and Patronage in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer\u003cbr\u003e  3. The Beauty of Grace in Abraham Cowley's \u003ci\u003eDavideis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  4. Cooperative Grace and Interpretation in Milton's \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  5. Grace and Prophetic Education in \u003ci\u003eParadise Regained\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: The Poem of Grace\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739553198360,"sku":"9781503638266","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-politics-of-grace-in-early-modern-literature-hardback-9781503638266","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}