Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamics of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England

by Judith Anderson

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The title Translating Investments, a manifold pun, refers to metaphor and clothing, authority and interest, and trading and finance. Translation, Latin translatio, is historically a name for metaphor, and investment, etymologically a reference to clothing, participates both in the complex symbolism of early modern dress and in the cloth trade of the period. In this original and wide-ranging book, Judith Anderson studies the functioning of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:082322421X

ISBN13:9780823224210

Release Date:April 2005

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.43 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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