Malory's Magic Book - King Arthur and the Child, 1862-1980

An examination of the numerous adaptations of Malory's Morte Darthur for children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

List of contents

Introduction
'Ever fresh and fascinating to the boy and girl of today': the timeless child and the childish medieval in nineteenth-century Arthuriana
Risk and revenue: adventurous Arthurian masculinities in the work of Howard Pyle and Henry Gilbert
The ill-made adult and the mother's curse: psychoanalysing the Arthurian child in T. H. White's The Once and Future King
'Monty Python was not that far away': the instability of 1950s Arthuriana for children
'For a little while a magician': potent childish fantasies in John Steinbeck's Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights
Conclusion: At the crossing-places
Bibliography

About the author

Elly McCausland

Summary

An examination of the numerous adaptations of Malory's Morte Darthur for children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Elly McCausland
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781843845195
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-519-5
• No. of pages: 251
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Arthurian Studies; Arthurian Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies