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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.

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)
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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.

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.

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.