{"subtitle": "Colonial New England Writing in the World System (Reencounters With Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas)", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "*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 \"world system\" 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."}, "links": [{"url": "http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/digital/publishing/books/burnham2007/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Free eBook through Dartmouth College Library"}], "title": "Folded Selves", "covers": [4850956], "first_publish_date": "February 1, 2007", "key": "/works/OL3352791W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL544451A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["American literature, history and criticism, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775", "Colonies in literature", "Economics in literature", "Travel writing", "New england, civilization"], "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T03:21:31.378890"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-12-25T01:57:17.486159"}}