Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials - Identity, Reception, and Politics

Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials takes an interdisciplinary view of Harry Potter, as a series and a phenomenon, to uncover how the lessons learned from Harry’s adventures became a moral compass and a guiding light for millennial readers in an era fraught with turbulence and disharmony.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Mythology of the Boy Wizard
Chapter 2: Toward a New Heroic
Chapter 3: The Media of the Boy Wizard
Chapter 4: Lessons Learned from the Boy Wizard
Chapter 5: Wizarding Decrees and the Defense Against the Dark Arts
Chapter 6: Harry Potter and Social Activism
Chapter 7: The Problem of J.K. Rowling
Conclusion

About the author

Priscilla Hobbs is a Senior Associate Dean at Southern New Hampshire University, USA. She is the author of Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials: Identity, Reception, and Politics (Bloomsbury 2022) and Walt’s Utopia: Disneyland and American Mythmaking (2024) and is the editor of the Studies in Disney and Culture series for Bloomsbury.

Summary

Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials takes an interdisciplinary view of Harry Potter, as a series and a phenomenon, to uncover how the lessons learned from Harry’s adventures became a moral compass and a guiding light for millennial readers in an era fraught with turbulence and disharmony.

Product details

• Authors: Priscilla Hobbs, Hobbs Priscilla
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781793620279
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-027-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Children’s & teenage literature studies: general, Children's & teenage literature studies