Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children's Literature
(Part of the Cambridge Elements in Publishing and Book Culture Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1108438458
ISBN13:9781108438452
Release Date:October 2018
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:152 Pages
Weight:0.43 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 7.0"
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