Picture-Book Professors

Academia and Children's Literature

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Children&, Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Writing & Publishing, Publishing
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Author: Melissa Terras ISBN: 9781108540322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: October 31, 2018
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Melissa Terras
ISBN: 9781108540322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 31, 2018
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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