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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: politics of grace in early modern literature
  name:
    name part: Kasa, Deni
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "This 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 sola gratia, 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. Offering a literary history of political identity in a pre-secular age, Kasa argues that early modern poets mapped the promise of salvation onto the most important political problems 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"--
  table of contents: Introduction : the politics of grace -- Equity and grace in Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene -- Grace, gender, and patronage in the poetry of Aemilia Lanyer -- The beauty of grace in Abraham Cowley's Davideis -- Cooperative grace and interpretation in Milton's Paradise lost -- Grace and prophetic education in Paradise regained -- Conclusion : the poem of grace.
  note: Deni Kasa.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Protestant poetry, English
    temporal: Early modern, 1500-1700
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English poetry
    temporal: Early modern, 1500-1700
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Grace (Theology) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Politics and literature
  subject:
    topic: Grâce (Théologie) dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Politique et littérature
  classification: PR535.G67 K37 2024
  classification: 821/.309
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    title info:
      title: Politics of grace in early modern literature
    name:
      name part: Kasa, Deni.
    origin info:
      publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024
    identifier: (DLC) 2023022825
  identifier: 9781503638266
  identifier: 150363826X
  identifier: 9781503638310
  identifier: 2023022824
  record info:
    record content source: CSt/DLC
    record creation date: 230511
    record change date: 20240308142337.1
    record identifier: in00004784655
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng