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Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding.
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Helen Fielding has the distinction among younger British novelists of having written an enormously popular book that has changed the English language and aroused an intense controversy over the need...
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In the following review, DiMassa compares Bridget Jones's Diary to other significant confessional writings in English literature.
What's a girl to do? Radicalized in the '60s and ...
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In the following review, Dick notes that Bridget Jones's Diary is a precursor of other contemporary works about single women.
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that borrowing the plot of...
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In the following review, Klinghoffer compares Bridget Jones's Diary to several other contemporary works focusing on single women in their thirties, including Tama Janowitz's A Certain Ag...
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In the following review, Gilbert lauds Bridget Jones's Diary for spawning a new genre of fiction by women writers which is typically comical and lighthearted, and features female protagonists w...
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In the following review, French discusses the style of humor, dominant themes, and success of Bridget Jones's Diary.
Ten am. 12st 8lb, alcohol units 0, cigarettes 0, calories 357 (according to ...
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In this interview, Fielding and Miller discuss female identity, moving to America, and the continued success of Bridget Jones's Diary.
For the record, Helen Fielding had zero alcohol units and ...
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In the following review of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Allardice compliments the novel's “unbeatable comic dialogue,” but wonders if Fielding is trying too hard to repeat t...
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In the following review, Reid highlights the phenomenal success of Bridget Jones's Diary in the United Kingdom and forecasts that the United States will receive the book with equal enthusiasm.
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In the following review, Daum analyzes the role of popular culture in Bridget Jones's Diary.
Bridget Jones's Diary, the bestselling British novel just out in the U.S., concerns itself al...
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In the following essay, Watson anticipates the American reaction to Bridget Jones's Diary
The name Bridget Jones may not be familiar in the U.S.—yet—but in Britain she is as famou...
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In the following review, Shalit praises Bridget Jones's Diary for its examination of popular culture and the position of single women in contemporary society.
In the mid-1970s, during the juven...
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Helen Fielding
Critical Review by Cara Mia Di Massa
