Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities -- 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 Post-war 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 -- 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 -- Afterword by Mark McGurl: Paradoxes of Institutional Belonging -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary
A history of creative writing programmes in British and American universities, from the 1930s onwards, 'Literary Rebels' argues against the notion that creative writing programmes are driven by conformity
