New adult fiction / Jodi McAlister.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAlister, Jodi, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524.

Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary form--History--21st century.

Literary form.

Romance fiction--History and criticism.

Romance fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The term 'new adult' was coined in 2009 by St Martin's Press, when they sought submissions for a contest for 'fiction similar to YA that can be published and marketed as adult - a sort of 'older YA' or 'new adult'.' However, the literary category that later emerged bore less resemblance to young adult fiction and instead became a sub-genre of another major popular genre: romance. This Element uses new adult fiction as a case study to explore how genres develop in the twenty-first-century literary marketplace. It traces new adult's evolution through three key stages in order to demonstrate the fluidity that characterises contemporary genres. It argues for greater consideration of paratextual factors in studies of genre. Using a genre worlds approach, it contends that in order to productively examine genre, we must consider industrial and social factors as well as texts.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

New Adult Fiction

Contents

Introduction

Category vs Genre

About This Element

1 2009 - New Adult at St Martin's Press

1.1 Post-Adolescence: St Martin's Press and the New Adult Submissions Contest

1.2 Contest, Context: The Texts and What Happened Next

1.3 Context, Paratext: New Adult and Genre in 2009

2 2011-2013 - The New Adult Boom

2.1 Failure to Launch? New Adult after the St Martin's Contest

2.2 The Second Coming of Chick Lit?

2.3 The New Adult Boom: Key Moments, Key Authors

2.3.1 Jamie McGuire

2.3.2 Colleen Hoover

2.3.3 The Boom

3 2020 - New Adult, a Decade On

3.1 Identity Crisis: New Adult as Fuzzy Set

3.2 New Adult Today: The Data

Conclusion

References.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2021).

ISBN:

9781108902489

1108902480

9781108902809

1108902804

9781108900737

1108900739

OCLC:

1492998563