1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457476403321

Autore

Quilligan Maureen

Titolo

Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England / / Maureen Quilligan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]

©2005

ISBN

1-283-21202-1

9786613212023

0-8122-0330-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Disciplina

820.93552

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM

Women Authors

English literature - History and criticism - Early modern, 1500-1700 - England

Incest in literature - History - 16th century - England

Feminism and literature - History - 16th century

Women and literature

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Halting the Traffic in Women: Theoretical Foundations -- 2. Elizabeth I (with a Note on Marguerite de Navarre) -- 3. Sir Philip Sidney's Queen -- 4. Mary Sidney Herbert (with a Note on Elizabeth Cary) -- 5. Spenser's Britomart -- 6. Mary Wroth -- 7. Shakespeare's Cordelia -- Epilogue: Milton's Eve -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Maureen Quilligan explores the remarkable presence in the Renaissance of what she calls "incest schemes" in the books of a small number of influential women who claimed an active female authority by writing in high canonical genres and who, even more transgressively for the time, sought publication in print.It is no accident for Quilligan that the first



printed work of Elizabeth I was a translation done at age eleven of a poem by Marguerite de Navarre, in which the notion of "holy" incest is the prevailing trope. Nor is it coincidental that Mary Wroth, author of the first sonnet cycle and prose romance by a woman printed in English, described in these an endogamous, if not legally incestuous, illegitimate relationship with her first cousin. Sir Philip Sidney and his sister, the Countess of Pembroke, translated the psalms together, and after his death she finished his work by revising it for publication; the two were the subject of rumors of incest. Isabella Whitney cast one of her most important long poems as a fictive legacy to her brother, arguably because such a relationship resonated with the power of endogamous female agency. Elizabeth Carey's closet drama about Mariam, the wife of Herod, spends important energy on the tie between sister and brother. Quilligan also reads male-authored meditations on the relationship between incest and female agency and sees a far different Cordelia, Britomart, and Eve from what traditional scholarship has heretofore envisioned.Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England makes a signal contribution to the conversation about female agency in the early modern period. While contemporary anthropological theory deeply informs her understanding of why some Renaissance women writers wrote as they did, Quilligan offers an important corrective to modern theorizing that is grounded in the historical texts themselves.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464066903321

Autore

Siṃha Manamohana

Titolo

The use (and abuse) of CDS spreads during distress [[electronic resource] /] / prepared by Manmohan Singh and Carolyne Spackman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington D.C.], : International Monetary Fund, 2009

ISBN

1-4623-8806-X

1-4527-7832-9

1-4518-7209-7

9786612842832

1-282-84283-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (13 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/09/62

Altri autori (Persone)

SpackmanCarolyne

Disciplina

338.267

Soggetti

Credit derivatives

Derivative securities

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Recent Distress in Financial Institutions; Figures; 1. Landsbanki; 2. Washington Mutual; 3. Lehman Brothers; III. Policy Implications of Using Stochastic Recovery; Table 1. CDS Settlements Determined Under the ISDA Cash Opt-in Protocol; Box 1. Ecuador ISDA Auction; Appendix I. Recovery Swaps, or Where the Ctd Bonds End Up; References

Sommario/riassunto

Credit Default Swap spreads have been used as a leading indicator of distress. Default probabilities can be extracted from CDS spreads, but during distress it is important to take account of the stochastic nature of recovery value. The recent episodes of Landbanski, WAMU and Lehman illustrate that using the industry-standard fixed recovery rate assumption gives default probabilities that are low relative to those extracted from stochastic recovery value as proxied by the cheapest-to-deliver bonds. Financial institutions using fixed rate recovery assumptions could have a false sense of security