Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-300) and index.
Contents
That was then: From Sue Barton to the sixties -- Sixties and the rise of realism -- Seventies: a golden age? -- Eighties: the pendulum swings -- This is now: Nineties and the future -- Time for relevance, and revelation -- Sex and other shibboleths -- Why we read, and other imponderables.