Young adult literature from romance to realism / Michael Cart.

Contents Part One: That Was Then -- From Sue Barton to the Sixties -- The Sixties and Seventies -- The Eighties: Something Old, Something New -- The Early Nineties -- The Rest of the Nineties -- Part Two: This Is Now -- A New Literature for a New Millennium? -- A Critical Apparatus -- Genre on the Agenda -- Romancing the Retail -- So, How Old Is Young Adult? -- Meanwhile, Back in the Real World -- Reality Revisited -- Sex and Other Shibboleths -- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender + Literature -- Still the Controversies Continue -- The Viz Biz -- The New Nonfiction -- Of Books and Bytes.
Abstract "Cart returns with a sweeping update of his classic text. His book surveys the landscape of YA lit; closely examines teen demographics, literacy, audiobooks, and the future of print; provides updated coverage of perennially popular genre fiction, including horror, sci fi, and dystopian fiction; delves deeply into multicultural and LGBTQIA+ literature, substantially updated in this edition; and more"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021051390
ISBN9780838947470 (paperback)
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