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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Rowling was drawing on some specific genres -- fantasy/quest, the coming-of-age novel (Bildungsroman) and its subgenre -- the British boarding school novel (a la Thomas Hardy and others) -- and others.
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ENGLISH LITERATURE GEEK WHO DID HER MASTER'S THESIS ON THOMAS HARDY ALERT!
Thomas Hardy? Perhaps you mean Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes?
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