All Outputs (8)

Book review of Emily Steinlight's Populating the novel: Literary form and the politics of surplus life (2019)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2019). Book review of Emily Steinlight's Populating the novel: Literary form and the politics of surplus life. Modern Language Review, 114(3), 554-556. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.114.3.0554

Book review

The Hidden Jane Austen [Book Review] (2016)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2016). The Hidden Jane Austen [Book Review]. Women's Writing, 23(4), 549-558. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2016.1157296

Book review of John Wiltshire's The Hidden Jane Austen

Book review: Dickens and the Imagined Child (2016)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2016). Book review: Dickens and the Imagined Child. Modern Language Review, 111(4), 1126-1128. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.111.4.1126

This is a book review of Dickens and the Imagined Child, edited by Peter Merchant and Catherine Waters.

Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma (2015)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2015). Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma

This essay suggests that Austen’s portrayal of Bristol in her fiction has two specific functions. First, it underscores her topographical realism: the references to the city and its immediate environs show how her novels are set in the recognizably r... Read More about Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma.

Countering the “contract-bargain”: Credit, debt, and the moral economy in David Copperfield (2015)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2015). Countering the “contract-bargain”: Credit, debt, and the moral economy in David Copperfield. Dickens Studies Annual, 46(1), 167-184. https://doi.org/10.7756/dsa.046.007/167-84

This essay argues that personal credit and debt relations play a vital role in David Copperfield. David's circle of family and friends is economically interdependent; the way this group functions does not endorse the concept of the possessive individ... Read More about Countering the “contract-bargain”: Credit, debt, and the moral economy in David Copperfield.

Austen’s Bath and Bath’s Jane: Austen writing the city and its twenty-first-century marketing of heritage Jane (2013)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2013). Austen’s Bath and Bath’s Jane: Austen writing the city and its twenty-first-century marketing of heritage Jane. Persuasions On-Line, 34(1),

Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction (2008)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2008). Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction. Gothic Studies, 10(2), 35-50

In recent years Dickens's use of Gothic has been the focus of some diverse and absorbing critical interpretations. This paper seeks to address in more detail the ways in which Gothic features in Dickens's various responses to the law in his work. Sce... Read More about Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction.

Bridging the gap between A Level and degree: Some observations on managing the transitional stage in the study of English Literature (2003)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2003). Bridging the gap between A Level and degree: Some observations on managing the transitional stage in the study of English Literature. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 2(1), 99-109