TY  - BOOK
AU  - Terras,Melissa M.
TI  - Picture-book professors: academia and children's literature 
T2  - Cambridge elements
SN  - 9781108529501 (ebook)
AV  - PN1009.A1 T47 2018
U1  - 809.89282 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Children's literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - College teachers in literature
KW  - Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Oct 2018); Open Access title; Open Access title
N2  - 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. The Element is also available, with additional material, as Open Access
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108529501
ER  -