Beginning Bibliography --suggestions are very welcome! Please let me know about broken links.
Genre     Children's Lit   Fantasy    Thomas Hughes   T. H. White   Harry Potter   Miscellaneous   Video    Sources from Class Members

1. Genre

Cawelti, John. Adventure, Mystery and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Frow, John. Genre. London: Routledge, 2006.

Hawkins, Harriett. Classics and Trash: Traditions and Taboos in High Literature and Popular Modern Genres. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.

McCracken, Scott. Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction. Manchester: Manchester U P, 1998. 

Whissen, Thomas Reed. Classic Cult Fiction: a Companion to Popular Cult Literature. New York: Greenwood , 1992.   

2. Children's Lit

Hunt, Peter. Criticism, Theory and Children's Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991. 

Hunt, Peter. An Introduction to Children's Literature. Oxford: Oxford U P, 1994. 

Hunt, Peter (ed.). International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. London: Routledge, 1996. 

Lurie, Alison, Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter . New York: Penguin, 2003. 

Nodelman, Perry. The Pleasures of Children's Literature. 2nd Edition. New York: Longman, 1996. 

Reynolds, Kimberley (ed.). Modern Children's Literature: an Introduction . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 

Bimberg, Christiane/Kullmann, Thomas (eds.). Children's Books and Child Readers: Constructions of Childhood in English Juvenile Fiction. Aachen: Shaker, 2006. 

Sadler, Glenn Edward (ed.). Teaching Children's Literature: Issues, Pedagogy, Resources. New York: Modern Language Association of America , 1994. 

Thacker, Deborah Cogan/Webb, Jean. Introducing Children's Literature: from Romanticism to Postmodernism. London: Routledge, 2002. 

Zipes, Jack. Sticks and Stones: the Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter. New York: Routledge, 2001.   

3. Fantasy as a Genre

Armitt, Lucie. Fantasy Fiction: an Introduction. New York: Continuum, 2005. 

Barron, Neil (ed.). Fantasy Literature: a Reader's Guide . New York: Garland , 1990. 

Hunt, Peter/Lenz, Millicent. Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction. London: Continuum, 2003. 

Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: the Literature of Subversion. London: Methuen, 1981. 

Mathews, Richard. Fantasy: the Liberation of Imagination . New York: Routledge, 2002. 

Tolkien, J. R. R. "On Fairy-Stories" (1964). In: Tolkien, J. R. R. Tree and Leaf. London: Unwin, 1988.
 

4. Thomas Hughes

Bamford, T W. Rise of the Public Schools. London: Nelson, 1967. 

Bannerjee, Jacqueline. "The Public School Experience in Victorian Literature." The Victorian Web, Brown University. http://www.victorianweb.org/history/education/publicschool2.html

Chandos, John. Boys Together: English Public Schools 1800 – 1864. New Haven: Yale U P, 1984. 

Film locations for the 1951 movie of Tom Brown's School Days: http://www.movie-locations.com/filmarchive/t/tombrown.html

Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan. The Public School Phenomenon: 597 - 1977. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979. 

Landow, George P. "Thomas Arnold in Tom Brown's School Days." The Victorian Web, Brown University. http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hughes/tarnold.html

---. "Thomas Hughes on the Value of Team Sports in Secondary Education." The Victorian Web, Brown University. http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hughes/sports.html

---. "What Tom Brown expects from his time at Rugby — Hughes on Education and Moral Character." The Victorian Web, Brown University. http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hughes/why.html.

Richards, Jeffrey. Happiest Days: the Public Schools in English Fiction . Manchester: Manchester U P, 1988.

Stonely, Peter. "Family Values and the 'Republic of Boys': Tom Brown and Others." Journal of Victorian Culture 3.1 (Spring 1998): 69-92. Note: if this link doesn't work, go to the Dacus online catalog, search under Journal of Victorian Culture, and follow the links to the online version of the journal; you can then select the Spring 1998 issue and  open the .pdf of this article.

Tom Brown's School Museum, Uffington, Oxfordshire: http://www.tombrown.btinternet.co.uk/museum/home-page.html

Worth, George J. Thomas Hughes. Boston: Twayne, 1984. 

5. T. H. White

The T. H. White Glossary at the Camelot Project, University of Rochester: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/CAMELOT/thwhite.htm

"England Have My Bones" (the big White website) notes on Sword in the Stone: http://www2.netdoor.com/~moulder/thwhite/tsits_b.html

Adderley, C. M. "The Best Thing for Being Sad: Education and Educators in T. H. White's Once and Future King." Quondam et Futurus: A Journal of Arthurian Interpretations 2.1 (Spring 1992): 55-68.

Berger, Christiane. "More Than Just a Fashion: T. H. White's Use of Dress as a Means of Characterization." Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 7.1 (1997-1998) : 135-40.

Crane, John K. T. H. White. Boston: Twayne, 1974.

Lupack, Alan. "The Once and Future King: The Book That Grows Up." Arthuriana 11.3 (Fall 2001): 103-14.

Nelson, Marie. "T. H. White: Master of Transformation." Neophilologus 85.2 (Apr. 2001): 309-21.

Smith, Evans Lansing. "The Narrative Structure of T. H. White's The Once and Future King." Quondam et Futurus: A Journal of Arthurian Interpretations 1.4 (Winter 1991): 39-52.

Sprague, Kurth. T.H. White's Troubled Heart : Women in The Once and Future King. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007. Also the title of a long article in Arthuriana 16.3 (Fall 2006): 5-197.

Warner, Sylvia Townsend. T. H. White: A Biography. London: Cape, 1967.

Worthington, Heather. "From Children's Story to Adult Fiction: T. H. White's The Once and Future King." Arthuriana 12.2 (Summer 2002): 97-119.

6. Harry Potter

Abanes, Richard. Harry Potter and the Bible: the Menace Behind the Magick. Camp Hill: Horizon, 2001. 

Adams, Richard. “Quidditch Quaintness.” The Guardian 18 June 2003 < http://books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/story/0,,979797,00.html>.

Anatol, Giselle Liza (ed.). Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Westport: Praeger, 2003. 

Behr, Kate.  "'Same-as-Difference': Narrative Transformations and Intersecting Cultures in Harry Potter." JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 35.1 (Winter 2005): 112-32. 

Blake, Andrew. The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter. London: Verso, 2002. 

Bloom, Harold. “Can 35 Million Bookbuyers Be Wrong? Yes.” Wall Street Journal 11 July 2000. 15 April 2008 < http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/courses/205.03/bloom.html>.

Bloom, Harold. “Dumbing Down American Readers.” Boston Globe 24 September 2003
< http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/09/24/dumbing_down_american_readers/>.   

Bridger, Francis. A Charmed Life: the Spirituality of Potterworld. London: Darton Longman & Todd, 2002. 

Brown, Stephen. Wizard! Harry Potter's Brand Magic . London: Cyan, 2005. 

Byam, Paige. "Children's Literature or Adult Classic? The Harry Potter Series and the British Novel Tradition." Topic: The Washington and Jefferson College Review 54 (2004): 7-13. 

Byatt, A. S. “Harry Potter and the Childish Adult.” New York Times 7 July 2003
< http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E4D8113AF934A35754C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print>.

Cherrett, Lisa. The Triumph of Goodness: Biblical Themes in the Harry Potter Stories. Oxford: Bible Reading Fellowship, 2003. 

Gibbs, Nancy. "J. K. Rowling." Time "Person of the Year Special Issue." 2007. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1695388_1695436,00.html

Gupta, Suman. Re-Reading Harry Potter. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. See esp. 99-132.

Harris, Mark. “The End of Childhood.” [Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.] Entertainment Weekly 3 August 2007. 15 April 2007 < http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20048278,00.html>.

Hitchens, Christopher. “The Boy Who Lived.” New York Times Book Review 12 August 2007 < http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/books/review/Hitchens-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print>.

King, Stephen. “J. K. Rowling’s Ministry of Magic.” Entertainment Weekly 11 July 2007
< http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20044270_20044274_20050689,00.html>,
< http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20044270_20044274_20050689_2,00.html>, and
< http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20044270_20044274_20050689_3,00.html>.

King, Stephen. National Book Foundation Award Acceptance Speech, 2003. < http://www.nationalbook.org/nbaacceptspeech_sking.html>.

Klosterman, Chuck. “Death by Harry Potter.” Esquire 23 October 2007.
< http://www.esquire.com/features/chuck-klostermans-america/klosterman1107>.

Lerer, Seth. "'Thy Life to Mend, This Book Attend': Reading and Healing in the Arc of Children's Literature." New Literary History 37 (Summer 2006): 631-42. 

Neal, Connie. The Gospel According to Harry Potter: Spirituality in the Stories of the World's Most Famous Seeker. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002. 

Nel, Philip. "Is There a Text in This Advertising Campaign? Literature, Marketing, and Harry Potter." The Lion And The Unicorn : A Critical Journal Of Children's Literature 29 (2005): 236-67. 

Nel, Philip. J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels: a Reader's Guide . New York: Continuum, 2003. 

Pugh, Tison, and David L. Wallace. "Heteronormative Heroism and Queering the School Story in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 31.3 (Fall 2006): 260-281. 

Rowling, J. K. The Tales of Beedle the Bard. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_6060292_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000179911&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=0M7SSX22ZMZYB8GBH31A&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=399926301&pf_rd_i=0545010225

Sattaur, Jennifer. "Harry Potter: A World of Fear".  The Journal of Children's Literature Studies 3.1 (March 2006):  1-14.

Schoefer, Christine. "Harry Potter's Girl Trouble". Salon Magazine (13.1.2000). [http://www.cesnur.org/recens/potter_012.htm]  

Taylor, Charles. “A. S. Byatt and the Goblet of Bile.” Salon.com 8 July 2003
< http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2003/07/08/byatt_rowling/index.html>.

Whited, Lana (ed.). The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. 

Whitney Hallett, Cynthia (ed.). Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter: Applying Academic Methods to a Popular Text. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. 

7. Miscellaneous Online Resources

Class Reserve List: http://library.winthrop.edu/search?/pKoster/pkoster/1%2C1%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=pkoster+josephine&2%2C%2C2

http://daily_snitch.livejournal.com/ ['fandom newsletter']

http://www.eulenfeder.de/hpliteratur.html [extensive bibliography]

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/ [the Harry Potter Lexicon---this is the one the current copyright lawsuit involves]

http://www.jkrowling.com/ [J. K. Rowling's homepage]

http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/rowling [Philip Nel's extensive website]

8. Videos

J. K. Rowling's commencement speech at Harvard: http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html

Sorcerer's Stone trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geNlXmmIp7w

Chamber of Secrets trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmPrfYkpwTY

Prisoner of Azkaban trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJmZT6en7eU&feature=related

Goblet of Fire trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGLzaVx-hUE

Order of the Phoenix trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoPn6H87pCk&feature=related 

Half-Blood Prince trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r991dOccD8A&feature=related

Deathly Hallows trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r991dOccD8A&feature=related

A couple fan videos that I think are hysterical: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSl5htuVlrg&feature=related and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sge5pUSJIRY and even http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuBm0dvIzcc

Quidditch at Middlebury: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hxPYCQ2fAUs&feature=related

How to Play Quidditch (at Amherst): http://youtube.com/watch?v=vc1x8zy41r0&feature=related

Quidditch for Muggles (CBS Sports): http://youtube.com/watch?v=5UfPij5ABdo

9. Resources Provided by Members of the Class