Lise 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.

• 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

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.

Lise 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.

• 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

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.

Lise 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.

• 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

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.