Gill Ballinger's Outputs (18)

Representing bodies and bathing machines: Jane Austen’s Sanditon and Andrew Davies’s 2019 ITV adaptation (2022)
Journal Article

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.

Review of Janine Barchas's, The Lost Books of Jane Austen (2022)
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Book review of Barchas's latest monograph.

Adapting wives and daughters for television: Reimagining women, travel, natural science, and race (2021)
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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.

Book review of Emily Steinlight's Populating the novel: Literary form and the politics of surplus life (2019)
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Book review

Adapting Austen "for the new generation:" ITV's 2007 Trilogy Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (2018)
Book Chapter

This essay compares the female protagonists in the British television network ITV’s 2007 film adaptations of Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park and Persuasion to the original characters in Austen’s novels. Each film strives to create what Penny Gay cal... Read More about Adapting Austen "for the new generation:" ITV's 2007 Trilogy Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.

Book review: Dickens and the Imagined Child (2016)
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This is a book review of Dickens and the Imagined Child, edited by Peter Merchant and Catherine Waters.

The Hidden Jane Austen [Book Review] (2016)
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Book review of John Wiltshire's The Hidden Jane Austen

Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma (2015)
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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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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)
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Dickens, phantoms and "psychic projection": The haunted house (2012)
Book Chapter

Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction (2008)
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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.

'The old curiosity shop' (2008)
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Revisiting the Brontes (2007)
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Missing intertexts: Hannah craft's the Bondwoman's Narrative and African American literary history (2005)
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Law and nineteenth-century literature (2004)
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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.

From madmen to vampires: Dickens's gothic law (2003)
Book Chapter

Bridging the gap between A Level and degree: Some observations on managing the transitional stage in the study of English Literature (2003)
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