Folded Selves
Colonial New England Writing in the World System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5779115 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Burnham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 232 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System (Reencounters With Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas) (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Dartmouth College Press : University Press of New England (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1349/ddlp.776 |
| OpenAlex | W773563322 |
| Open Library | OL8793942M |
| ISBN | 9781584656173 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 10 |
Folded Selves radically refigures traditional portraits of seventeenth-century New England literature and culture by situating colonial writing within the spatial, transnational, and economic contexts that characterized the early-modern theorized by Immanuel Wallerstein and others. Michelle Burnham rethinks American literary history and the politics of colonial dissent, and her book breaks new ground in making the economic relations of investment, credit, and trade central to this new framework for early American literary and cultural study. Transcontinental colonialism and mercantile capitalism underwrote not just the emerging world system but New World writing-suggesting that early modern literary aesthetics and the early modern economy helped to sponsor each other. Burnham locates in New England's literature of dissent-from Ma-re Mount to the Salem witchcraft trials - a persistent use of economic language, as well as competing economies of style. The brilliance of Burnham's study is that it exposes the transoceanic material and commercial concerns of colonial America's literature and culture of dissent
American Constitutional Law and Politics · Literature: history, themes, analysis · 17th century · American - General · American literature · civilization · colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · Colonies in literature · Criticism · Economics and literature · Economics in literature · English · History · History and criticism · history and criticism, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · History: American · Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries · Literature - Classics · new england · Northeastern & North Atlantic states · Travel writing · united states · United States - General · United States - State & Local - New England
Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2007
Accounting for Invention
Puritans, new and old
Conversion Experiences
William Cowper, the Georgic, and the Unwritten Literature of the 1780s
Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere Transnational Imagination in Early American Travel Writing (1770-1830)
Postexceptionalist Puritanism
Witch Hunts and Census Conflicts
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2022 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |