A history of creative writing programmes in British and American universities, from the 1930s onwards, that argues against the notion that creative writing programmes are driven by conformity. 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.