Harry Potter's Bookshelf (30 page)

2
Gerritsen, Tess. “No romance, please. We’re mystery readers.” February 24, 2007. See
http://tessgerritsen.com/blog/2007/02/
.

3
I am indebted in this discussion to John G. Cawelti’s
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture
(University of Chicago Press, 1977). I urge the reader to read his brilliant exposition of the cultural and psychological factors that fostered the formula and success of detection fiction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (chapter four, pp. 80-105) as well as his exploration of Christie and Sayers.

4
On detective fiction as moral literature, see W. H. Auden, “The Guilty Vicarage,” in
The Dyer’s Hand
(Vintage, 1948), pp. 146-158.

5
Wright, Willard Huntington. “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Fiction,” first published in the
American Magazine
, September 1928, and subsequently incorporated in the omnibus
Philo Vance Murder Cases
(1936). See
http://www.sfu.ca/english/Gillies/Engl38301/rules.htm
; cited by David Stroud at
http://hogwartsprofessor.com/?p=457#comment-37190
.

6
Ibid.

7
Sayers, Dorothy. “Gaudy Night,” originally published in
Titles to Fame
(1937, ed. Denys Roberts), reprinted in
The Art of the Mystery Story
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992), pp. 208-209. See
http://www.sfu.ca/english/Gillies/Engl38301/sayquotes.htm
; cited by David Stroud at
http://hogwartsprofessor.com/?p=457#comment-37210
.

8
Wright, “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Fiction.”

9
Sayers, “Gaudy Night.”

10
Sayers, Dorothy.
Busman’s Honeymoon,
cited in Barbara Reynolds’s
Dorothy Sayers: Her Life and Soul
(St. Martin’s, 1993), p. 270; thanks to Robert Trexler, editor of
CSL
, for this find.

11
Sayers, Dorothy. Private letter, cited in Barbara Reynolds’s
Dorothy Sayers: Her Life and Soul
, p. 188.

12
Renton, “The Story Behind the Potter Legend.”

13
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.
Biographia Literaria
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868), Chapter 13.

1
Rowling, J. K. “From Mr Darcy to Harry Potter by Way of Lol ita.”
Sunday Herald
, May 21, 2000; the transcript of JKR’s statements for a BBC Radio4 show about famous people and their favorite books. See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0500-heraldsun-rowling.html
.

2
Boquet, Tim. “J. K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter,”
Reader’s Digest
, December 2000. See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/1200-readersdigest-boquet.htm
.

3
Cf. Delasanta, Rodney, “Hume, Austen, and First Impressions,”
First Things
, June/July 2003, pp. 24-29,
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=502
.

1
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, “Enid Blyton.”
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_blyton#Statistics
.

2
Byatt, A. S. “Harry Potter and the Childish Adult.”
The New York Times,
July 11, 2003. See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2003/0711-nyt-byatt.html
.

3
My discussion of the formula and specific elements of the schoolboy novel and
Harry Potter
as an example of same is largely taken from my understanding of Karen Manners Smith’s “Harry Potter’s Schooldays: J. K. Rowling and the British Boarding School Novel,” in
Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays,
ed. Giselle Lisa Anatols (Greenwood Publishing/Praeger, 2003), pp. 69-88, and David K. Steege’s “Harry Potter, Tom Brown, and the British School Story: Lost in Transit?” in
The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter,
ed. Lana A. Whited (University of Missouri Press, 2004), pp. 140-156.

4
Hattenstone, Simon. “Harry, Jessica and me,”
The Guardian
, July 8, 2000. See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0700-guardian-hattenstone.htm
.

5
Renton, “Wild About Harry.”

6
Mack, Edward C. (1941), quoted in John Reed,
Old School Ties: The Public School in British Literature
(New York: Syracuse University Press, 1964), p. 18; cited in Steege, “Harry Potter,” p. 156.

7
Steege, “Harry Potter,” pp. 143-145.

8
Smith, K., “Harry Potter’s Schooldays,” p. 74.

9
Ibid., p. 77.

10
Ibid., p. 78.

11
Ibid., p. 82.

12
Steege, “Harry Potter,” p. 151.

13
Hughes, Thomas.
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
(New York: Oxford University Press, World Classics, 1989), pp. 374-376.

14
Steege, “Harry Potter,” p. 150.

15
Smith, K., “Harry Potter’s Schooldays,” pp. 69-88.

16
Ibid., p. 76.

17
Ibid., p. 77.

18
Hughes, from the preface to
Tom Brown’s Schooldays.

19
Simpson, Anne. “Face to Face with J. K. Rowling: Casting a Spell over Young Minds,”
The Herald
, December 7, 1998. See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/1998/1298-herald-simpson.html
.

20
Grossman, Lev. “J. K. Rowling Hogwarts and All,”
Time
, July 17, 2005. See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-time-grossman.htm
.

21
J. K. Rowling Official Site, FAQ section, “What Exactly Happened When Voldemort Used the Avada Kedavra Curse on Harry in the Forest?” See
http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_view.cfm?id=122
.

22
Edinburgh “cub reporter” press conference, ITV, July 16, 2005. See
http://w w w.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-edinburgh-ITVcubreporters.htm
.

23
J. K. Rowling on “The Diane Rehm Show,” WAMU Radio, Washington, D.C., October 20, 1999 (rebroadcast December 24, 1999). See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/1299-wamu-rehm.htm
.

24
Lewis, C. S.
A Preface to Paradise Lost
(London: Oxford University Press, 1962), p. 55.

25
This was excerpted from an ITV press conference on July 6, 2005. The entire press conference can be seen at
www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-edinburgh-ITVcubreporters.htm
.

26
Bloom, Harold. “Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes,”
The Wall Street Journal
, July 11, 2000. See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0711-wsj-bloom.html
.

1
My thanks to Dr. Amy H. Sturgis, Belmont University, for the distinction between real and late gothic preferred in the academy.

2
Tracy, Ann B.
Patterns of Fear in the Gothic Novel, 1790
-
1830
(New York: Ayer Company, 1980), pp. 8-16, 328.

3
Tracy, Ann B. “Gothic Romance,” in
The Handbook to Gothic Literature
, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts (New York: New York University Press, 1998), p. 104.

4
Tracy,
Patterns of Fear in the Gothic Novel,
p. 316.

5
Ibid., pp. 315, 327.

6
Ibid., p. 315.

7
Ibid., p. 328.

8
Ibid., p. 326.

9
Sage, Victor. “Gothic Novel,” in
The Handbook to Gothic Literature,
ed. by Marie Mulvey-Roberts (New York: New York University Press, 1998), p. 82.

10
“Living with Harry Potter.” Interviewer: Stephen Fry from BBC Radio4 Broadcast, December 10, 2005. See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/1205-bbc-fry.html
.

11
Correspondence with Dr. Amy H. Sturgis. “Ann Radcliffe, in her discussion of ‘The Supernatural in Poetry’: ‘Terror and horror are so far opposite, that the first expands the soul, and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life; the other contracts, freezes, and nearly annihilates them. I apprehend, that neither Shakespeare nor Milton by their fictions, nor Mr. Burke by his reasoning, anywhere looked to positive horror as a source of the sublime, though they all agree that terror is a very high one . . . ’ ”

12
MacDonald, George. Preface to
The Letters from Hell
by Valdemar Adolph Thisted (New York: Funk and Wagnall’s, 1887), pp. vi-vii, viii-ix. (Thanks to Robert Trexler.)

13
Sturgis, Dr. Amy H., ed.
The Magic Ring
by Baron de la Motte Fouque (Chicago: Valancourt Books, 2006), pp. 343-344.

1
Goldschmidt, Rick. “Rudolph: Behind the Scenes.” See
http://www.tvparty.com/xmasrudolph.html
.

2
See
http://www.filespie.com/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/
.

3
Grossman, “J. K. Rowling Hogwarts and All.”

4
“Living with Harry Potter.” sections of the following postmodern discussion are taken from
The Deathly Hallows Lectures
(Zossima Press, 2009) and used with permission.

5
Gibbs, Nancy. “Person of the Year 2007
. . .
Runners-Up.”
Time
2008. See
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1695388_1695436,00.html
.

6
Vieira, Meredith. “Harry Potter: The Final Chapter.”
Date-line
(NBC), July 29, 2007. See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/0729-dateline-vieira.html
.

7
Grossman, “J. K. Rowling Hogwarts and All.”

1
Bloom, Allan, trans.
The Republic of Plato
(New York: Basic Books, 1965), p. 189.

2
Bloom, Allan, trans.
Plato’s Republic
(New York: Basic Books, 1968), VII, 514a-520a, pp. 193-197; VI, 508e, p. 189.

3
Eliade, Mircea.
The Sacred and the Profane
(New York: Harvest Books: 1968), p. 205.

4
Johnston, Ian. “Lecture on Swift’s
Gulliver’s Travels
,” (Nanaimo, B.C.: Malaspina University College, 1994). See
http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/introser/swift.htm
.

5
Ibid.

6
Lepore, Jill. “The Lion and the Mouse: The Battle That Reshaped Children’s Literature,”
The New Yorker
, “Lives and Letters,” July 21, 2008. See
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lepore/?currentPage=all
.

7
“Living with Harry Potter.”

8
Gibbs, “Person of the Year.”

9
Vieira, “Harry Potter.”

10
“
Harry Potter
and Me.” (BBC Christmas Special, British version), BBC, December 28, 2001. See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2001/1201-bbc-hpandme.htm
.

11
Solomon, Evan, moderator. “J. K. Rowling Interview,”
CBCNews-World: Hot Typ
e, July 13, 2000. See
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0700-hottype-solomon.htm
.

12
UPI. “Rowling Donates $1.8 Million to Labor Party,” September, 20, 2008. See
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/20
08/09/20/Rowling_donates_18M _to_Labor_Part y/ UPI-53161221945425/.

13
Olbermann, Keith. “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” October 22, 2007, updated October 24, 2007. See online transcript:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21456011/
.

14
Cruz, Juan. “Ser invisible...eso sería lo más,”
Edimburgo,
August 2, 2008. See
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Ser/invisible/seria/elpepicul/20080208elpepicul_1/Tes
; and see also
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2008/2/9/jk r-discusses-dursley-family -religion-us-presidential-election-and-more-in-new-interview.

15
Solomon, “J. K. Rowling Interview.”

16
Telegraph
, U.K. “Harry Potter Lives in Thatcher’s Britain,” October 19, 2007. See
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1567536/%27Harry-Potter-lives-in-Thatcher%27s-Britain%27.html
.

17
CNN.
“Harry Potter
Author: I Considered Suicide,” March 23, 2008. See
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/03/23/rowling.depressed/index.html
. Jerry Bowyer notes (private correspondence, December 15, 2008): “Rowling is a deeply hurt lady. There’s a great deal of therapeutic material in her books: light to dispel devil’s snare, humor to resist boggarts, happy images to dispel dementors, chocolate to recover. Clearly, she’s had counseling. She’s been hurt, and she associates that hurt with the political right, I think.”

18
Wyman, Max. “ ‘You can lead a fool to a book but you can’t make them think’: Author has frank words for the religious right,”
The Vancouver Sun
(British Columbia), October 26, 2000. See
http:// w w w.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/1000-vancouversun-w
yman .htm.

19
Lumley, James. “J .K. Rowling Wins Appeal in Lawsuit Over Child Photos,” Bloomberg, May 7, 2008. See
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aFg6lRR9kmuw&refer=uk
.

20
J. K. Rowling at Carnegie Hall Reveals Dumbledore Is Gay; Neville Marries Hannah Abbott, and Much More, “Edward,” The Leaky Cauldron (fan website transcript), October 20, 2007. See
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more/page/6
.