Young adult literature : from romance to realism / Michael Cart.
Author: Cart, Michael.
Publisher: Chicago : American Library Association, 2010.
ISBN: 9780838910450 (alk. paper)
0838910459 (alk. paper)
Description: ix, 242 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject: Young adult fiction, American History and criticism.
Young adult literature History and criticism.
Teenagers Books and reading United States.
Teenagers in literature.
Contents: From Sue Barton to the sixties : what's in a name? and other uncertainties -- The sixties and the seventies : the rise of realism and the first golden age -- The eighties : something old, something new : the rise of the paperback series, multicultural literature, and political correctness -- The early nineties : a near death experience -- The rest of the nineties : revival and renaissance -- A new literature for a new millennium : the renaissance continues -- Romancing the retail : of series, superstores, Harry Potter, and such -- So, how adult is young adult : the crossover conundrum -- Meanwhile, back in the real world : immigration, mixed race, and other new realities of teen life -- Sex and other shibboleths : YA comes of age, and not a moment too soon -- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature : the controversies continue -- The viz biz : transforming the funnies -- The eyes have it : other visual forms : photoessays and the new nonfiction -- Of books and bytes : multiple literacies, the death of print, and other imponderables.