Scholarly study tracing the rise, evolution, and market dynamics of new adult fiction as a twenty-first-century genre category.
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Scholarly study tracing the rise, evolution, and market dynamics of new adult fiction as a twenty-first-century genre category.
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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 literar...
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