Literary Rebels

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. *
Literary Rebels is a fascinating insight into the long-running creative/critical debates in University English Literature departments and an in-depth examination of the cultural history of creative writing and its institutionalization (or otherwise) in a transatlantic perspective...overall, this is an important and timely book for anyone interested in the past and future of creative writing within and outside of English Literature as a discipline. It will be useful reading on University Management Boards and at the Office for Students. * Nicola Wilson, Modern British History *
Literary Rebels is thus a series of fascinating case studies divided into two main sections, one focussing on American writers and one on British writers...Jaillant's "'transatlantic" focus illuminates key figures and provides valuable ways to re-evaluate them. * Naomi Booth, Ariel: a review of international english literature *
Literary Rebels, though not without its flaws, is a significant contribution to the scholarly discourses around creative writing. While Jaillant may situate this book squarely within the field of literary study, it can also be read as an entry into the still-emerging and dynamic field of creative writing studies, where scholars and practitioners from a number of other language-related subfields come together to study, debate, and discuss the perennially interesting thing we call (perhaps for lack of a better term) creative writing. * Tim Mayers, Papers on Language and Literaturev *