McCausland Malory's Magic Book

King Arthur and the Child, 1862-1980
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78744-412-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 86, 251 Seiten

Reihe: Arthurian Studies

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCausland, Elly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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