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This study aims to return to the social, political, and economic framework that shaped Lanyer's work, in order to demonstrate how her Eden is less an allegorical utopia than a reaction to and incorporation of patronage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I also seek to highlight the contradictions of Lanyer's work as reflections of her struggle to carve out a space for herself as a female writer in an essentially patriarchal realm. Lanyer's portrayal of her prospective patrons, and her own poetic self-fashioning, navigates the essentially masculine patronage system governing both the imaginary and actual realms of Salve Deus. 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I also seek to highlight the contradictions of Lanyer's work as reflections of her struggle to carve out a space for herself as a female writer in an essentially patriarchal realm. Lanyer's portrayal of her prospective patrons, and her own poetic self-fashioning, navigates the essentially masculine patronage system governing both the imaginary and actual realms of Salve Deus. 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