This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twnetieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as ...individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
This text argues that, haunted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde as gay man, writer and self-invented artist, subsequent gay playwrights, working between Wilde and the dawn of gay liberationist theatre, ...were unable to rival his celebrated status as “gay playwright”. It focuses on the work of Noel Coward, Terrence Rattigan and Somerset Maugham and considers how their repressed and marginalized situation as closeted homosexual writers affected their life and work. Bitter, cynical parodies of heterosexual marriage in crisis, farcical portrayals of the impossibility of monogamous attachment, and slapstick promotion of sexual experimentation feature prominently in the popular social comedies of these writers. This text assesses the role of “sublimation” and looks at how contemporary heterosexual audiences responded to them.
The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth ...of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments. The importance of Somerset's prehistoric wetland heritage is shown by the fact that twenty-five percent of all the prehistoric waterlogged sites thought still to exist in England are from the Somerset moors, the County Museum in Taunton Castle holds the largest collection of conserved prehistoric worked wood in the UK, possibly in the whole of Europe, the Sweet Track (the oldest known wooden trackway in the UK) and Glastonbury Lake Village have produced the most complete record of Neolithic and Iron Age material culture in the UK and Glastonbury Lake Village was the best preserved prehistoric settlement ever discovered in the UK. This substantial monograph presents the results of the MARISP project ( Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands) which thoroughly assessed the condition of the wetland monuments and the ongoing threats to their survival and aimed to answer key research questions about the sites through the use of minimally invasive excavation and to inform the development of future national and county wetland strategies.
The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor ...and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour and artifice) comprise a contested site and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. It pays close attention to the interiors of Lord Ronald Gower, Alfred Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall, Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, Noël Coward and Cecil Beaton. Richly illustrated and written in a lively and accessible manner, Bachelors of a different sort is at once theoretically ambitious and rich in its use of archival and various historical sources.
Eutrophication is a significant threat to surface water biodiversity worldwide, with excessive phosphorus concentrations being among the most common causes. Wetland ditches under these conditions ...shift from primarily submerged aquatic vegetation to algae or duckweed dominance, leading to excessive shading and anoxic conditions. Phosphorus, from both point (e.g. wastewater treatment works) and diffuse (largely agricultural runoff) sources, is currently the central reason for failure in the majority of surface water bodies in England to meet required water quality guidelines. This study assesses phosphorus storage in the ditch systems at West Sedgemoor, a designated site of special scientific interest. Elevated phosphorus concentrations in sediment was observed across the Moor up to 4220 mg Kg−1, almost 10 times that which may be expected from background levels. The highest concentrations were generally observed at the more intensively farmed sites in the north of the moor, near key inlets and the outlet. Based upon their chemical and physical properties, clear distinction was observed between sites outside and within the Royal Society of the Protection of Birds nature reserve, using principal component analysis.
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•Exceptionally high sediment P concentrations observed e.g. >4000 mg kg−1.•Higher P concentrations observed at the north of the moor, the inlets and outlet.•Principal component analysis distinguished sites by land management approaches.•Higher P concentrations observed near agricultural land compared to nature reserve.•Observations indicate relatively higher P input from agricultural land.
•Detrital zircon U-Pb data acquired on samples from Boothia-Somerset.•Three assemblages were recognized.•Data reveal a complex and prolonged depositional history spanning>600Myr.
Boothia ...Peninsula–Somerset Island is an under-explored frontier region of Arctic Canada, long considered part of the Rae craton, that exposes widespread semipelitic rocks with minor quartzite, marble, and calc-silicate, and late Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic plutonic rocks. Detrital zircon U-Pb SHRIMP analyses constrain the timing of deposition and provenance of three sequences. An older clastic succession (sequence 1), deposited after ca. 2500 Ma, is characterized by major modes at 2560–2510 Ma, consistent with unroofing of Boothia basement rocks and local derivation of detrital grains. Minimal detritus representative of Rae craton (i.e., 2970 Ma, 2790–2600 Ma) suggests the basin formed either at a thin margin of the western Rae craton or as part of a distinct terrane (Boothia-Somerset) separate from the western Rae craton at ca. 2500 Ma. An extensional setting during deposition of sequence 1 may relate to slab retreat. Texturally and chemically mature quartzite (sequence 2) was deposited between 2280 and 2020 Ma in a shallow or beach-like environment indicative of a passive-margin setting. Younger clastic rocks (sequence 3) associated with, and thought to overlie, carbonate strata are characterized by a significant population of 2020–1970 Ma detrital grains, consistent with exhumation of the Thelon magmatic arc and deposition of its detritus between 1960 and 1940 Ma. Overall, this detrital dataset highlights a polycyclic ca. 600 million year evolutionary history on, or outboard of, a thinned Rae cratonic margin. These results strengthen the possible linkages to the central and northern Canadian Shield and open up the potential for a distinct ribbon terrane, which may have connections to the China and Yangtze cratons.
The Eifelian-aged Hangman Sandstone Formation of southwest England is a unit of the ‘Old Red Sandstone’ that has traditionally been considered relatively barren of trace fossils. Following recent ...investigations, we here show it to contain the most diverse Middle Devonian non-marine ichnofauna known globally. The fluvial-lacustrine facies of its constituent Trentishoe Member contain representatives of 21 ichnogenera including Archaeonassa, Arenicolites, Beaconites, Bifungites, Circulichnis, Cruziana, Diplichnites,?Gluckstadella, Gordia,?Halimededes,?Lockeia, Merostomichnites, Palmichnium, Petalichnus, Planolites, Polarichnus, Rusophycus, Siskemia, Spirophyton, Steinsfjordichnus, and Taenidium, as well as several microbially induced sedimentary structures. The transitional marine-influenced facies of the underlying Hollowbrook Member are less extensively exposed but contain four additional unique ichnogenera in the form of Cochlichnus, Halopoa, Phycodes, and Teichichnus, as well as further examples of Cruziana, Planolites and Taenidium. A revised ichnological assessment of the unit reveals several notable features, including the youngest known example of the arthropod refugia trace, Polarichnus, as well as a transitional trace fossil form of Diplichnites-Beaconites, demonstrating that the latter was produced by arthropods. As the Hangman Sandstone Formation records the culmination of a marine regression, its ichnofauna can be compared with that of the conformably underlying Lynton Formation, which was deposited in a sandy marine shelf setting. The ichnological differences between these units are acute, with 88% of the Hangman Sandstone Formation trace fossils being exclusive to non-marine or transitional facies. This observation sheds light on the terrestrialization process and indicates that the segregation of marine and non-marine trace fossil communities had accelerated by the Middle Devonian. Internal variability in ichnological signatures within the Hangman Sandstone Formation is also pronounced, with greater ichnodiversity and ichnodisparity in distal fluvio-lacustrine facies than in proximal fluvial facies. By viewing the depositional environment of the unit as a regionally extensive distributive fluvial system, this variability can be partly explained by a bias arising from the distribution of true substrates (bedding planes that demonstrably preserve an ancient sediment-air interface) in the unit, with such phenomena being more readily preserved in the lower energy outer reaches of the depositional system.
•25 ichnotaxa are reported from the Middle Devonian Hangman Sandstone Formation.•88% are exclusively non-marine forms, showing Mid Devonian acceleration of terrestrialization.•Surficial trace fossils are made available by true substrates within a distributive fluvial system•Transitional forms between Diplichnites and Beaconites show the latter was formed by arthropods.•Youngest examples of Polarichnus and the first reported non-marine?Halimededes.
Rhaetian seas in the latest Triassic transgressed from west to east over the southwest of the UK, reaching parts of South Wales and the North Somerset coast first. Evidence comes from marine ...conditions in the pre-Rhaetian Williton Member, a unit not seen further east. Here, we confirm this hypothesis with reports of diverse, Rhaetian-style fish faunas in the Williton Member, as well as evidence that the Westbury Formation bonebeds are from deeper waters than most others in the region. Our study focuses on the classic coastal section at Lilstock, which shows the entire Penarth Group and the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. The Williton Member fossil beds yield Rhaetian-type chondrichthyans (Lissodus, denticles), osteichthyan teeth (Gyrolepis, Sargodon, Saurichthys), and bivalves. The basal and higher bone beds of the Westbury Formation are dominated by osteichthyans (86.8 %, 84.7 %), with chondrichthyans relatively rare (13.2 %, 15.3 %), the opposite of what is seen at other locations in the southwest of the UK (16–59 % osteichthyans; 41–84 % chondrichthyans). The similarity of the faunal composition in the basal and higher Rhaetian bone beds is also unusual, and the dominance by bony fishes can be interpreted as evidence for deeper water than further to the east.
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