... a family unit in order to compete in a capitalist marketplace. Nonetheless, the family chronicles developed by Yonge model a social economy in which both narrative and economic resources are not concentrated on a single striver but are distributed across a system. The Daisy Chain itself is openly anti...

... reduction of character to idiomatic stereotypes with the author as master ventriloquist. More importantly, it led the way to the reinvention of the novel's acoustics. If traditionally subjugated by the domineering visual aesthetics of formal realism, which reduced voice to a rescindable soundtrack chained...

.... “[T]hese characters,” Ward argues, “develop recursively in order to eradicate, rather than develop, interiority. Lack of interiority here is not a failure of aesthetics; The Daisy Chain shows character formation based on everyday routine that neither attempts nor wants to seem natural” (21...

... education. The theme of educational testing extends the range of Lee's texts not only to Charlotte Brontë's Villette and Anthony Trollope's The Three Clerks but also to Frederic Farrar's Julian Home , Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy Chain , Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall , and in due course, to civil service...

... chronicles like Charlotte Mary Yonge's The Daisy Chain (1856) or Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868–69) shows this popular genre doing something quite similar at the level of narrative form. Where such novels as Jane Eyre (1847), David Copperfield (1850), and Jude the Obscure (1894–95) came up...

... he can explain to himself. His thoughts interrupt each other, but we can see either an internal causal chain or an external reason for the interruption. Perowne rejects Daisy's claim that literary genius inheres in detail, but (in an- other hint of hermeneutic suspicion) his own...

... imagines at the end of the novel and Henry himself reinforces, for him, his view of the continuity and cumulative nature of scientific discovery. Conceptually, he is linked to that other doctor by an internal chain of discovery, theory, and practice that conceives of scientific knowledge as special...

...). A sign is therefore part of a “contextual chain” mediated by a “spacing” that allows for “its extraction and grafting,” its quotation or use in another context (317). Importantly, this ability of the sign to signify outside of its original context—which is obvious in the case of writing—is also a feature...

..., or perhaps a different taste for reality. In Croatia, Marijana's husband Miroslav had earned a brief fame for reassembling a two-hundred-year-old mechanical duck; their second daughter gets into trouble for shoplifting “a silver chain, a chain that is not even real silver” (167); and when Paul visits...

..., “the constant interest and intercourse that had linked the far island and these scattered farms into a golden chain of love and dependence” (452). What might be thought of as a native information economy regulates the autopoiesis of the town, its ability to reproduce and maintain itself; indeed, it patterns its...

... isn't nearby. After giving Washington the files he uses to break his chains on the Creole , Listwell says to himself, “Farewell! farewell! brave and true man!” and then he “los[es] no time in completing his business” in Virginia (41). The four scenes that make up The Heroic Slave encode...

..." sentimentalist. Yet that act of exposure is specifically what the paradoxes of the term "sentimental" imply cannot be done, since naming or de- nouncing a "real" or "closet" sentimentalist only adds one more link to a poten- tially endless chain? Waugh, I suggest, runs up against precisely this paradox...