Picture-Book Professors - Academia and Children''s Literature

Provides a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature. This title is also available, with additional material, as Open Access.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Related research: representation, vocation, and higher education; 3. Research methodology; 4. An analysis of academics in children's illustrated literature; 5. Pedagogical, baffled, or mad: the stereotype of academics as plaything; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix A. Children's books included in the analysis; Appendix B. Academics identified in children's literature, listed chronologically; Appendix C. Potential books identified (but unavailable).

Summary

Surveying fictional professors in texts marketed to children, this Element conveys how the stereotypical image of a professor is portrayed as old, white and male. It provides a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature. This title is also available, with additional material, as Open Access.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Terras, Melissa (University of Edinburgh) Terras, Melissa M. Terras, Melissa M. (University of Edinburgh) Terras, Terras Melissa M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781108438452
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43845-2
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Elements: Publishing and Book Culture; Elements: Publishing and Book; Elements in Publishing and Book Culture; Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Literary theory, Children's & teenage literature studies, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general