In his obituary of J. M. Barrie, George Bernard Shaw called his plays ‘terrifying’. Although Peter Pan (first performed in 1904) had long become a cherished children’s fantasy and a staple of Christmas theatricals, Shaw seemed more perturbed than enchanted by it (1993: 151). Barrie is seldom described as a Gothic writer, although his own well-known and often reductively understood biography has been ‘Gothicised’ into a dark psycho-narrative. Rather than use the latter to suggest Barrie’s election to the Scottish Gothic canon, this chapter takes its cue from recent work by R. D. S. Jack (2010), Valentina Bold and Andrew Nash (2014) and others, who demonstrate how Barrie is a writer of complexity and contradiction. The generic and thematic range of Barrie’s writing means that he is not a consistent or fully fledged Gothic writer but nevertheless Gothicism still inks a recurrent pattern of motifs and ideas in his work.
It has been observed that the step coverage achieved for aluminum deposition at 200~ on a multi-chamber (ultra-high vacuum) horizontal physical vapor deposition (PVD) system (System A) is electrically comparable to the step coverage on a single chamber, high vacuum (vertical) PVD system (System B) at 300~ under the optimized conditions ofpre-clean process, sputtering power, argon pressure and chamber hardware configuration. In addition, it has been determined that the metal step coverage is relatively poor at temperatures higher than 200~ on System A, whereas the metal step coverage on System B is better at 300~ when compared with both substantially lower and higher temperatures. Since step coverage is a vital parameter in the manufacturing of sub-micron devices with high aspect ratio vias, the effect of the sputtering process parameters has been studied. This work investigates possible causes for the observed temperature effect and evaluates possible methods for improving the step coverage. The directionality of sputtering and film-substrate bonding are identified as two primary factors controlling step coverage.
Literature of the late Renaissance period in Scotland is best understood in the light of the two monarchs, mother and son, who governed the nation between 1561 and 1603. Scottish court culture in this period was alternately shaped, inhibited and nurtured by the political fortunes of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots (1542-87) and James VI . Within four decades, the Catholic queen from a powerful Franco-Scottish dynasty was first deposed, then beheaded; a succession of Protestant regents reigned calamitously; and the young king, exiled and estranged from his mother, inherited a politically and religiously troubled crown which, after twenty-four years of relatively successful governance, would find union with England's in 1603. The political vicissitudes of the Marian and Jacobean periods in Scotland charted an erratic path for artistic culture. Perhaps because of this, the idea of a 'Renaissance' in Scotland, the counterpart of England's Elizabethan one, has yet to find firm root in the literary historiography of later sixteenth-century Britain. Yet the conventional meaning of the term, 'Renaissance', as 'rebirth', accurately sums up the prolific efforts of Scottish poets to create art which had national, as well as aesthetic, currency. This essay begins by exploring literary culture in Mary's reign, suggesting that, despite its relative fragility, the long shadow which it cast over subsequent decades proved the necessary impetus for the 'Renaissance' of James VI's reign. That 'Renaissance' was relatively short-lived, since regal union in 1603 dictated the end of Scotland's independent monarchy, and of literary art which had emerged out of the enriching conditions of sovereignty. This survey of the distinctive nature of Scottish literature in the reigns of Mary and James traces the major themes and preoccupations of a culture which was geographically placed at the periphery of Europe but which increasingly sought to prove its artistic centrality in the face of political change. 1 The Marian Period Queenly ControversiesMary Stewart's reign (1561-8) exemplifies both the potential and limitations of literature composed for a queen who represented the promise of the Franco-Scottish political alliance (she was the daughter of James V and Mary of Guise) but also the threat of a Catholic European monarchy for a strengthened protestant political elite. The return of the princess who
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