Nicholas Daly: 3 books
Modernism and Colonialism
British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This collection of essays by renowned literary scholars offers a sustained and comprehensive account of the relation of British and Irish literary modernism to colonialism. Bringing postcolonial studies into dialogue with modernist studies, the contributors move beyond depoliticized appreciations...
The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City
Paris, London, New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
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...
The Snake's Pass
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
In 1890, The Snake’s Pass was published in serialized form in the periodical The People. It is the story of Arthur Severn, an Englishman who has inherited wealth and a title through an aunt who took him under her wing to the exclusion of closer relations. His inheritance includes land in Ireland,...