Dans la littérature de jeunesse, les mères sont souvent cantonnées à des rôles de femmes au foyer, anonymes – à moins qu’elles ne soient des sorcières ou de méchantes reines.
- Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham
Dickens had some clever little narrative tricks, which become clear when his work is analysed as a single data set.
In children’s literature, mothers are rarely more than anonymous homemakers – unless they are wicked queens.
From witching equality to what we’d see if we looked in a real Mirror of Erised, researchers explore the magic of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
The history of children’s books gives us very few really villainous female characters – and most of them are witches or evil queens.
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