Children of Their Time: Elizabeth Bennet versus Bridget Jones

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1 (A), University of Marburg (Institute for Anglistics/ American Studies), course: PS Introduction to the Early 19th Century Novel, language: English, abstract: It is a truth universally acknowledged that Helen Fielding did not invent the plot of her novel Bridget Jones’s Diary, which was f...