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1 The Celebrated George Barrington by Nathan Garvey Toby R. Benis , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , no. 9 2009;
— Review of The Celebrated George Barrington : A Spurious Author, the Book Trade, and Botany Bay Nathan Garvey , 2008 single work criticism
1 Criminal Transport : George Barrington and the Colonial Cure Toby R. Benis , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 20 no. 3 2002; (p. 167-177)

Examines the representation of criminality and convicts in the work of George Barrington and argues that his stunningly successful Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) is a significant response to the popular anxiety that convicts are carriers of social contamination and physical disease, at a time when the implicit association was made between criminals and colonial subjects, who needed to be physically segregated from Britain in order to maintain the stability of the domestic order.
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