Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- A note on names
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Ever fresh and fascinating to the boy and girl of today’: the timeless child and the childish medieval in nineteenth-century Arthuriana
- 2 Risk and revenue: adventurous Arthurian masculinities in the work of Howard Pyle and Henry Gilbert
- 3 The ill-made adult and the mother's curse: psychoanalysing the Arthurian child in T. H. White's The Once and Future King
- 4 ‘Monty Python was not that far away’: the instability of 1950s Arthuriana for children
- 5 ‘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
- Index
- Arthurian Studies
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2019
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- A note on names
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Ever fresh and fascinating to the boy and girl of today’: the timeless child and the childish medieval in nineteenth-century Arthuriana
- 2 Risk and revenue: adventurous Arthurian masculinities in the work of Howard Pyle and Henry Gilbert
- 3 The ill-made adult and the mother's curse: psychoanalysing the Arthurian child in T. H. White's The Once and Future King
- 4 ‘Monty Python was not that far away’: the instability of 1950s Arthuriana for children
- 5 ‘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
- Index
- Arthurian Studies
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- Malory's Magic BookKing Arthur and the Child, 1862–1980, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019