The New Puritan Generation (Fiction and Writing) - Softcover

Fernández, José Francisco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780240155 ISBN 13: 9781780240152

Publisher: Gylphi, 2013

Synopsis

In the year 2000, two young editors, Nicholas Blincoe and Matt Thorne, published All Hail the New Puritans, an anthology of short stories which created an impact in the somewhat faded literary scene of Britain at the turn of the millennium.

The stories themselves, written by 15 young English writers (Scarlett Thomas, Alex Garland, Ben Richards, Nicholas Blincoe, Candida Clark, Daren King, Geoff Dyer, Matt Thorne, Anna Davis, Bo Fowler, Matthew Branton, Simon Lewis, Tony White, Toby Litt and Rebbecca Ray), together with the editors' manifesto, offered a new and stimulating approach to fiction, although the whole project had an outrageous reception by the literary establishment.

For the first time, a collection of essays addresses the importance of the New Puritan movement and provides guidelines to understand this generation of writers.

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About the Author

José Francisco Fernández is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Almería, Spain. He has published widely on the contemporary British short story, including articles in journals such as Journal of the Short Story in English, ZAA, AUMLA and Irish Studies in Europe. He is co-editor of Contemporary Debates on the Short Story (Peter Lang, 2007) and he has recently edited A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman. The Collected Stories, by Margaret Drabble (Penguin, 2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Gylphi
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780240155
• ISBN 13: 9781780240152
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224