Elly Mccausland

Malory's Magic Book

King Arthur and the Child, 1862-1980

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 251
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781843845195
• ISBN-10: 1843845199
• Artikelnr.: 53066393

Autorenporträt

Elly McCausland

Inhaltsangabe

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