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OverviewHow many times have you heard that creative writing programmes are factories that produce the same kind of writers, isolated from real life? Only by escaping academia can writers be completely free. Universities are profoundly conservative places, designed to favour a certain way of writing-preferably informed by literary theory. Those who reject the creative/ critical discourse of academia are the true rebels, condemned to live (or survive) in a tough literary marketplace. Conformity is on the side of academia, the story goes, and rebellion is on the other side. This book argues against the notion that creative writing programmes are driven by conformity. Instead, it shows that these programmes in the United States and Britain were founded and developed by literary outsiders, who left an enduring mark on their discipline. To this day, creative writing occupies a marginal position in Anglo-American universities. The multiplication of new programmes, accompanied by rising student enrolments, has done nothing to change that positioning. As a discipline, creative writing strives on opposition to the mainstream university, while benefiting from what the university has to offer. Historically, this opposition to scholars was so virulent that it often led to the separation of creative writing and literature departments. The Iowa Writers' Workshop, founded in the 1930s, separated from the English department three decades later--and it still occupies a different building on campus, with little communication between writers and scholars. This model of institutional division is less common in Britain, where the discipline formally emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But even when creative writing is located within literature departments, relationships with scholars remain uneasy. Creative writers and scholars are not, and have never been, natural bedfellows. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lise Jaillant (Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Digital Humanities, Loughborough University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.596kg ISBN: 9780192855305ISBN 10: 0192855301 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 20 October 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Introduction Part I: USA 1: Think Global, Act Local: Paul Engle and the Modernist Roots of Creative Writing at the University of Iowa 2: ""I'm Afraid I've Got Involved With a Nut"": William Faulkner, Random House and the Postwar Generation of Aspiring Writers 3: Healing the Breach between Writers and Scholars? Wallace Stegner and the Diffusion of the Creative Writing Gospel 4: Fighting Organization Man: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Re-discovery of the Individual Creative Writer 5: Fame, Fortune, and Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Famous Writers School Part II: UK 6: Myth Maker: Malcolm Bradbury and the Creation of Creative Writing at UEA 7: Lorry-Driver Poets and Student Radicals: Inventing the ""Writer-in-Residence"" in Britain 8: Kazuo Ishiguro: ""The First Product of a Creative Writing Course to Win the Nobel"" 9: Beyond Academia: From Arvon to the Faber Academy Epilogue: The Future of Creative Writing Programmes in Continental Europe Conclusion: Rebel Forever? How to be a Writer in the Program Era Mark McGurl: Afterword Works Cited"Reviews"A compelling post-45 cultural history; grounded in rich historical research.... What Literary Rebels ultimately exposes—and this may be its most lasting legacy—is the increasing privatization of the humanities and of creative writing in particular, as neoliberal capitalism proves remarkably adept, continuously, at incorporating into itself even the most ""outside"" of literary rebellions. * Modern Philology * Written in accessible language. Well researched, informative and...extremely interesting. * Times Literary Supplement * Jaillant expands the frame within which we can understand the rise of creative writing-from a somewhat parochial American story to a broader Anglo-American cultural phenomenon. * American Literary History. * Jaillant's research into British creative writing programmes explores new territory. * Literature & History. * Literary Rebels is, in the end, a book about desire: the contradictory desires of successful creative writers, the utopian ones of programme founders, the frustrated ones of aspiring novelists with day jobs. * English: Journal of the English Association. * Situated at the cutting edge of book history ...a timely examination of the beginnings of an academic behemoth of a discipline within the growth of the humanities. * Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada * Literary Rebels asks intriguing questions and presents extensive research, including a meticulous and impressive works cited section, to point subsequent scholars toward avenues of further exploration of the history of creative writers in Anglo-American universities. * Women: A Cultural Review. *" Written in accessible language. Well researched, informative and...extremely interesting. * Times Literary Supplement * Written in accessible language; Well-researched, informative and ... extremely interesting . * Times Literary Supplement * "Literary Rebels ultimately exposes-and this may be its most lasting legacy-is the increasing privatization of the humanities and of creative writing in particular, as neoliberal capitalism proves remarkably adept, continuously, at incorporating into itself even the most ""outside"" of literary rebellions. * Christopher Kempf, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Modern Philology * Grounded in rich historical research...What Literary Rebels ultimately exposes-and this may be its most lasting legacy-is the increasing privatization of the humanities and of creative writing in particular, as neoliberal capitalism proves remarkably adept, continuously, at incorporating into itself even the most ""outside"" of literary rebellions. * Christopher Kempf, Modern Philology * Written in accessible language. Well researched, informative and...extremely interesting. * Times Literary Supplement *" Written in accessible language ; Well-researched, informative and ... extremely interesting . * Times Literary Supplement * Author InformationLise Jaillant is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. She specialises in twentieth-century literary institutions, with a special interest in publishers and creative writing programmes. She is author of Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon: The Modern Library Series, 1917-1955 (Routledge, 2014) and Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers' Series and the Avant-Garde (EUP, 2017) and editor of Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry (EUP, 2019). Taken together, these three books offer a broad overview of Anglo-American publishers in the early-twentieth-century, and their influence on the diffusion of modern literature. 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