Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman,
John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda
Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadao
Lopes, Amy Mars, Christina Phillips-Mattson, Patrick McCauley,
Jennifer M. Reeher, Jonathan A. Rose, and Emily Strand Despite
their decades-long, phenomenal success, the Harry Potter novels
have attracted relatively little attention from literary critics
and scholars. While popular books, articles, blogs, and fan sites
for general readers proliferate, and while philosophers,
historians, theologians, sociologists, psychologists, and even
business professors have taken on book-length studies and edited
essay collections about Harry Potter, literature scholars, outside
of the children's books community, have paid few serious visits to
the Potterverse. Could it be that scholars are still reluctant to
recognize popular novels, especially those with genre labels
"children's literature" or "fantasy," as worthy subjects for
academic study? This book challenges that oversight, assembling and
foregrounding some of the best literary critical work by scholars
trying to move the needle on these novels to reflect their
importance to twenty-first-century literate culture. In Open at the
Close, contributors consciously address Harry Potter primarily as a
literary phenomenon rather than a cultural one. They interrogate
the novels on many levels, from multiple perspectives, and with
various conclusions, but they come together around the overarching
question: What is it about these books? At their heart, what is it
that makes the Harry Potter novels so exceptionally compelling, so
irresistible to their readers, and so relevant in our time?
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