A monstrous text : an exploration of genre in the Harry Potter novels

• Main Author: Vanderstraaten Vanessa Ann
• Other Authors: Tamara Silvia Wagner
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44530
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When Bloomsbury published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 1997, Joanne Kathleen Rowling began a whirlwind, rags-to-riches tale of her own. The writer, who once lived on welfare benefits, became a multi-millionaire in the span of five years, selling a total of more than 325 million copies...