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

by Judith Anderson

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"