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Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children's Literature

dc.contributor.author Melissa M. Terras
dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-19T06:24:24Z
dc.date.available 2024-01-19T06:24:24Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.description Publisher: Cambridge University Press ; License: CC BY-NC-ND ; Source: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108529501 ; pages
dc.description.abstract How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children. Professors are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists who 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.
dc.identifier.isbn 9781108529501
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.vlu.edu.vn:443/handle/123456789/12303
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.subject Children’s Literature
dc.subject Academia
dc.subject English Literature
dc.subject Gender Studies
dc.subject Diversity
dc.subject Representation
dc.title Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children's Literature
dc.type Resource Types::text::book
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