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Representing bodies and bathing machines: Jane Austen’s Sanditon and Andrew Davies’s 2019 ITV adaptation (2022)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2022). Representing bodies and bathing machines: Jane Austen’s Sanditon and Andrew Davies’s 2019 ITV adaptation. Humanities, 11(4), Article 81. https://doi.org/10.3390/h11040081

Jane Austen’s final novel fragment Sanditon has inspired continuations of many kinds from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. The most recent literary afterlife it has generated is the 2019 British adaptation for ITV, created by Andrew Davies, and wi... Read More about Representing bodies and bathing machines: Jane Austen’s Sanditon and Andrew Davies’s 2019 ITV adaptation.

Adapting wives and daughters for television: Reimagining women, travel, natural science, and race (2021)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2022). Adapting wives and daughters for television: Reimagining women, travel, natural science, and race. Adaptation, 15(1), 84-99. https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apab005

This essay examines the depiction of women, travel, natural science, and race in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (1864-66) and Andrew Davies's BBC adaptation of the novel (1999). It argues that the adaptation offers a recognizable transpositi... Read More about Adapting wives and daughters for television: Reimagining women, travel, natural science, and race.

Law and nineteenth-century literature (2004)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2004). Law and nineteenth-century literature. Literature Compass, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00053.x

This article examines the connections between law and literature, briefly considering work accomplished in this interdisciplinary field before focusing upon Charles Dickens's debate with the legal reformer and barrister James Fitzjames Stephen over t... Read More about Law and nineteenth-century literature.