| Contents |
Part One: That Was Then -- From Sue Barton to the Sixties -- The Sixties and Seventies -- The Eighties -- 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Cart, Michael. Young adult literature. Fourth edition. Chicago : ALA Neal-Schuman, 2022 9780838937471 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques litt eraires. |
| LCCN | 2021051390 |
| ISBN | 9780838947470 |
| ISBN | 0838947476 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
