Gill Ballinger's Outputs (14)

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

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.

The Hidden Jane Austen [Book Review] (2016)
Journal Article

Book review of John Wiltshire's The Hidden Jane Austen

Book review: Dickens and the Imagined Child (2016)
Journal Article

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

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

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

Dickens, phantoms and "psychic projection": The haunted house (2012)
Book Chapter

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

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)
Book Chapter

Revisiting the Brontes (2007)
Other

Missing intertexts: Hannah craft's the Bondwoman's Narrative and African American literary history (2005)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article