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Author Burnham, Michelle

Title Folded Selves : Colonial New England Writing in the World System
Published Lebanon : Dartmouth College Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages)
Series Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas
Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Colonial Folds and the Space of Dissent; 1 | Investment: Uncertain Certainty and the Economic Subject; 2 | Merchants: William Bradford and Plain Style; 3 | Inflation: Thomas Morton and Trading-Post Pastoral; 4 | Vent: Anne Hutchinson and Antinomian Selfhood; 5 | Equivalence: Roger Williams and the Typology of Trade; 6 | Debt: Salem Witchcraft and Paper Money; Epilogue: Economies of Possession and Dissent; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary A new evaluation of New England's literature of dissent in works by early English settlers in America
Notes Print version record
Subject American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
American literature -- New England -- History and criticism
Economics and literature -- United States -- History -- 17th century
Colonies in literature.
Economics in literature.
Travel writing -- History -- 17th century
American literature
American literature -- Colonial period
Civilization
Colonies in literature
Economics and literature
Economics in literature
Travel writing
SUBJECT New England -- Civilization -- 17th century
Subject New England
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611686845
1611686849