Malory's Magic Book: King Arthur and the Child, 1862-1980
Author:   Elly McCausland
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Volume:   v. 86
ISBN:  

9781843845195


Pages:   251
Publication Date:   15 February 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Malory's Magic Book: King Arthur and the Child, 1862-1980


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Author:   Elly McCausland
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   D.S. Brewer
Volume:   v. 86
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9781843845195


ISBN 10:   1843845199
Pages:   251
Publication Date:   15 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table 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

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McCausland (British and American literature, Univ. of Oslo, Norway) provides a thoughtful exploration of various adaptations of Malory's 15th-century Mort D'Arthur into children's editions, ranging from James Knowles's 1862 The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights to John Steinbeck's 1976 adaption The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. CHOICE


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Dr McCausland is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Oslo, having beeen a Postdoctoral Fellow at Aarhus University, graduating from Merton College, Oxford with a PhD from the University of York

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