The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature

"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."
-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."
-Sarah Mortimer, University of Oxford "A very fine and insightful book, highly recommended to all who study the 17th century."-Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Austin "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, Literature and Theology "The Politics of Grace 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, Journal of Religious History