Nicholas Daly
Biographic Data
| ID | 5148359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Daly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Daly |
| SIGNATURE | DALY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2385-2700 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dickensland
Thinking Contingently
What links stray Victorian tabby cats, Adam Bede, Victorian board games, and Darwin's account of species? What connects Maxwell's demon and Daniel Deronda? The answer, it turns out, is contingency. In this thoughtful and well-researched interdisciplinary account, Tina Young Choi ranges far and wide to find examples of the Victorian assimilation of contingency and related ideas of probability and risk. Darwin's work, as Gillian Beer and others hav…
The Prisoner of Zenda
‘If love were the only thing, I would follow you-in rags if need be ... But is love the only thing?’ Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda is a swashbuckling adventure set in Ruritania, a mythical pocket kingdom. Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll closely resembles the King of Ruritania, and to foil a coup by his rival to the throne, he is persuaded to impersonate him for a day. However, Rassendyll's role becomes more complicated when the real king is k…
Prisoner of Zenda
Scarlet Pimpernel
Melodrama
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The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City
In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world. As the crowded cities of Paris, London and New York went through similar transformations, a set of shared narratives and images of urban life circulated among them, including fantasies of urban catastrophe, crime dramas, and tales of haunted public transport, refracting the he…
The Triumph of Human Empire
Blame the Mummy
Roger Luckhurst, The Mummy's Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 336pp; £18.99 hardbackIn The Mummy's Curse Roger Luckhurst explains why the funerary practices of a long-dead and geographically-distant civilisation came to exercise such a fascination in modern Britain. More precisely, he analyses the way in which Egyptian mummies almost always come trailing disaster in our popular culture. To do so he…
The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction
Popular commercial fiction emerged in the nineteenth century, with serialised novels and sensational penny dreadfuls. Today it remains a multi-million dollar industry giving pleasure to many, but it is also a field of growing interest for scholars and students of literature. This Companion covers the major developments in the history of popular fiction, with specially commissioned chapters on pulp fiction, bestsellers, and comics and graphic narr…
The Volcanic Disaster Narrative
This essay surveys the volcano spectacles, paintings, plays, and narratives that appear at the end of the eighteenth century, thrive in the nineteenth, and live on well into the twentieth. Moving amphibiously between popular and high culture, this polymodal "commodity experience" imagines historical change as catastrophe, and projects the modern into the past and the forces of modernity onto the natural world. Its ability to absorb political cont…
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home he is an idle fop and a leader of fashion, but in abroad he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise who saves aristocrats from the guillotine. When the revolutionary French state seeks to unmask him, Percy’s estranged, independent wife, Marguerite, unwittingly sets their agent on her husband’s track. Percy’s escapades, and Marguerite’s daring journey to France to save h…
Dover
In the kitchen Sally was extremely busy—saucepans and frying-pans were standing in rows on the gigantic hearth, the huge stock-pot stood in a corner, and the jack turned with slow deliberation, and presented alternately to the glow every side of a noble sirloin of...
Modernism and Colonialism
The Many Lives of the Colleen Bawn
The Many Lives of the Colleen Bawn: Pastoral Suspense Get access Nicholas Daly Nicholas Daly 1University College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 1–25, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2006.12.1.1 Published: 01 January 2007
The Woman in White
This article examines the links among Whistler's epochal White Girl (1862), Courbet's infamous L'Origine du Monde (1866), and George Du Maurier's best-seller, Trilby (1894). The most obvious connection is Whistler's one-time model and mistress, Johanna Hiffernan, the original of the White Girl, but also the probable model for Courbet's painting, and, I suggest, for Du Maurier's heroine, Trilby O' Ferrall. I argue that (a) Whistler's 1862 painting…
Modernism, Romance and the Fin De Siècle
In Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather than treating these stories as Victorian Gothic, Daly locates them as part of a 'popular modernism'. Drawing on work in cultural studies, this book argues that the vampires, mummies and treasure…
Blood on the Tracks
O _ n 3 October 1868, the Illustrated London News in its regular column, Theatres, reported that the Victoria Theatre was staging a locomotive engine and railway terror. The late Mr. T. Moncrieff's drama of The Scamps of London has been put under contribution for the purpose, and with a little alteration, and some efficient scenery, is found to answer to the purpose precisely. [. . .] [T]here are now 5 theatres on [sic] which the incident is nigh…
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Momia, which is some five or six miles beyound, ar thowsands of imbalmed bodies, which weare buried thousands of years past in a sandie cave, at which ther seemeth to have bine citie in tim[els past. We were lett doune by ropes as into a well, with wax candles burninge in our hands, and so waulked uppon the bodies of all sorts and sised [read sizes], great and smaule, and some imbalmed in little earthen potts, which never had forme; thes ar s…
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Momia, which is some five or six miles beyound, ar thowsands of imbalmed bodies, which weare buried thousands of years past in a sandie cave, at which ther seemeth to have bine citie in tim[els past. We were lett doune by ropes as into a well, with wax candles burninge in our hands, and so waulked uppon the bodies of all sorts and sised [read sizes], great and smaule, and some imbalmed in little earthen potts, which never had forme; thes ar s…
The Volcanic Disaster Narrative
This essay surveys the volcano spectacles, paintings, plays, and narratives that appear at the end of the eighteenth century, thrive in the nineteenth, and live on well into the twentieth. Moving amphibiously between popular and high culture, this polymodal "commodity experience" imagines historical change as catastrophe, and projects the modern into the past and the forces of modernity onto the natural world. Its ability to absorb political cont…
The Many Lives of the Colleen Bawn
The Many Lives of the Colleen Bawn: Pastoral Suspense Get access Nicholas Daly Nicholas Daly 1University College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 1–25, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2006.12.1.1 Published: 01 January 2007
Blood on the Tracks
O _ n 3 October 1868, the Illustrated London News in its regular column, Theatres, reported that the Victoria Theatre was staging a locomotive engine and railway terror. The late Mr. T. Moncrieff's drama of The Scamps of London has been put under contribution for the purpose, and with a little alteration, and some efficient scenery, is found to answer to the purpose precisely. [. . .] [T]here are now 5 theatres on [sic] which the incident is nigh…
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Momia, which is some five or six miles beyound, ar thowsands of imbalmed bodies, which weare buried thousands of years past in a sandie cave, at which ther seemeth to have bine citie in tim[els past. We were lett doune by ropes as into a well, with wax candles burninge in our hands, and so waulked uppon the bodies of all sorts and sised [read sizes], great and smaule, and some imbalmed in little earthen potts, which never had forme; thes ar s…
Blood on the Tracks
O _ n 3 October 1868, the Illustrated London News in its regular column, Theatres, reported that the Victoria Theatre was staging a locomotive engine and railway terror. The late Mr. T. Moncrieff's drama of The Scamps of London has been put under contribution for the purpose, and with a little alteration, and some efficient scenery, is found to answer to the purpose precisely. [. . .] [T]here are now 5 theatres on [sic] which the incident is nigh…
Modernism, Romance and the Fin De Siècle
In Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather than treating these stories as Victorian Gothic, Daly locates them as part of a 'popular modernism'. Drawing on work in cultural studies, this book argues that the vampires, mummies and treasure…
The Woman in White
This article examines the links among Whistler's epochal White Girl (1862), Courbet's infamous L'Origine du Monde (1866), and George Du Maurier's best-seller, Trilby (1894). The most obvious connection is Whistler's one-time model and mistress, Johanna Hiffernan, the original of the White Girl, but also the probable model for Courbet's painting, and, I suggest, for Du Maurier's heroine, Trilby O' Ferrall. I argue that (a) Whistler's 1862 painting…
Modernism and Colonialism
The Many Lives of the Colleen Bawn
The Many Lives of the Colleen Bawn: Pastoral Suspense Get access Nicholas Daly Nicholas Daly 1University College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 1–25, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2006.12.1.1 Published: 01 January 2007
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home he is an idle fop and a leader of fashion, but in abroad he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise who saves aristocrats from the guillotine. When the revolutionary French state seeks to unmask him, Percy’s estranged, independent wife, Marguerite, unwittingly sets their agent on her husband’s track. Percy’s escapades, and Marguerite’s daring journey to France to save h…
Dover
In the kitchen Sally was extremely busy—saucepans and frying-pans were standing in rows on the gigantic hearth, the huge stock-pot stood in a corner, and the jack turned with slow deliberation, and presented alternately to the glow every side of a noble sirloin of...
The Volcanic Disaster Narrative
This essay surveys the volcano spectacles, paintings, plays, and narratives that appear at the end of the eighteenth century, thrive in the nineteenth, and live on well into the twentieth. Moving amphibiously between popular and high culture, this polymodal "commodity experience" imagines historical change as catastrophe, and projects the modern into the past and the forces of modernity onto the natural world. Its ability to absorb political cont…
The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction
Popular commercial fiction emerged in the nineteenth century, with serialised novels and sensational penny dreadfuls. Today it remains a multi-million dollar industry giving pleasure to many, but it is also a field of growing interest for scholars and students of literature. This Companion covers the major developments in the history of popular fiction, with specially commissioned chapters on pulp fiction, bestsellers, and comics and graphic narr…
Blame the Mummy
Roger Luckhurst, The Mummy's Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 336pp; £18.99 hardbackIn The Mummy's Curse Roger Luckhurst explains why the funerary practices of a long-dead and geographically-distant civilisation came to exercise such a fascination in modern Britain. More precisely, he analyses the way in which Egyptian mummies almost always come trailing disaster in our popular culture. To do so he…
The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City
In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world. As the crowded cities of Paris, London and New York went through similar transformations, a set of shared narratives and images of urban life circulated among them, including fantasies of urban catastrophe, crime dramas, and tales of haunted public transport, refracting the he…
The Triumph of Human Empire
Scarlet Pimpernel
Melodrama
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Prisoner of Zenda
‘If love were the only thing, I would follow you-in rags if need be ... But is love the only thing?’ Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda is a swashbuckling adventure set in Ruritania, a mythical pocket kingdom. Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll closely resembles the King of Ruritania, and to foil a coup by his rival to the throne, he is persuaded to impersonate him for a day. However, Rassendyll's role becomes more complicated when the real king is k…
Prisoner of Zenda
Thinking Contingently
What links stray Victorian tabby cats, Adam Bede, Victorian board games, and Darwin's account of species? What connects Maxwell's demon and Daniel Deronda? The answer, it turns out, is contingency. In this thoughtful and well-researched interdisciplinary account, Tina Young Choi ranges far and wide to find examples of the Victorian assimilation of contingency and related ideas of probability and risk. Darwin's work, as Gillian Beer and others hav…
Dickensland
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