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Contemporary British Fiction: Cool Britannia and After British Literature, Culture, and Society from the 1990s to the Present Session Five: Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’ Diary

Agenda Reflection and Representation

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary : Weekly columns in The Independent 1996: published as Bridget Jones’s Diary 2001: Sharon Maguire, Bridget Jones’s Diary

First UK edition

First American edition

Sharon Maguire, Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)

Post 2001 edition

BBC, Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Second Time Around Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason : weekly columns in The Daily Telegraph 1999: published as Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 2004: Beeban Kidron, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Third Time Around??? : weekly columns in The Independent Bridget Jones novel nr 3? Bridget Jones 3 Film in the works Bridget Jones, the musical

Reflection ”A brilliant evocation of life as a single girl in a certain time” (The Times) ”It captures neatly the way modern women teeter between ’I am woman independence and a pathetic girlie desire to be all things to all men” (NYTBR) ”’Bridget Jones, c’est moi’” (TLS) ”Bridget Jones is satire, a sassy spoof of urban manners” (NYT)

Contextualism: New Historicism, Cultural Materialism Representation rather than reflection. Art is a cultural construct and ideological product of historically specific conditions rather than a mirror held up to life Art is like other cultural constructs and ideological products. Historically specific conditions: cultural norms, values, ideas, beliefs, institutions, practices, relationships, products.

Women’s Fashion Early 19th centuryMid 19th century

Women’s Fashion

Contextualism schools Libraries Marriage Politics Sports Literature: Books, Readings, Prizes, … Music The Arts Hollidays The Internet: Surfing, chatting, Blogging … Cars Fashion Nature

Contextualism: New Historicism, Cultural Materialism Representation Embedding Negociation Commerce Exchange Transaction Circulation

Working with contextualism ”Tuesday 21 March: Birthday” Identify the anomaly What’s the point or effect of the anomaly? What does it do to our image of Bridget? How does it relate to historically specific conditions: cultural norms, values, ideas, beliefs, institutions, practices, relationships, products.