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Reading Harry Potter is a collection of critical essays that treat J.K. Rowling’s beloved series not as mere children's entertainment but as a significant cultural text. Beginning with an overview of the phenomenon, the volume surveys psychological and social‑developmental insights drawn from the novels. It then contextualizes the books within the European fairy‑tale tradition, British abolitionist history, and the public‑school story genre, before turning to the series’ moral and legal values, notions of bravery, and broader social attitudes toward justice, education, race, socioeconomic class, and gender.
First publish date: 2003
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Giselle Liza Anatol
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