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Picture-book professors : academia and children's literature / Melissa M. Terras.
Van Pelt Library PN1009.A1 T47 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Terras, Melissa M., author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements
- Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's literature--History and criticism.
- Children's literature.
- College teachers in literature.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
- Children's literature--Publishing.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children, who are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists. Professors fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of the male, mad, muddlehead, called Professor SomethingDumb, is formed in humorous yet pejorative fashion. This Element provides a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature, questioning the book culture which promotes the enforcement of stereotypes regarding intellectual expertise in children's media. This title is also available, with additional material, as Open Access.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1108438458
- 9781108438452
- OCLC:
- 1035291136
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