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Picture-book professors : academia and children's literature
- Title
- Picture-book professors : academia and children's literature / Melissa M. Terras.
- Author
- Terras, Melissa M.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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- Description
- 211 pages; 18 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge elements.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFC 18-517
- ISBN
- 9781108438452
- 1108438458
- OCLC
- 1035291136
- Author
- Terras, Melissa M., author.
- Title
- Picture-book professors : academia and children's literature / Melissa M. Terras.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book cultureCambridge elements.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 18-517