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Malory's Magic Book

By Elly Mccausland

Malory's Magic Book

By Elly Mccausland

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From the time when the writer J.T. Knowles first adapted Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur for a juvenile audience in 1862, there has been a strong connection between children and the Arthurian legend. Between 1862 and 1980, in Britain and America, numerous adaptations of the Morte were produced for a young audience, participating in cultural dialogues relating to the medieval, literary heritage, masculine development, risk, adventure and mental health through their reworking of the narrative. Covering texts by J.T. Knowles, Sidney Lanier, Howard Pyle, T.H. White, Roger Lancelyn Green, Alice Hadfield, John Steinbeck and Susan Cooper, among others, this volume explores how books for children frequently become books about children, and consequently books about the contiguity and separation of the adult and the child. Against the backdrop of Victorian medievalism, imperialism, the rise of child psychology and two world wars, the diverse ways in which Malory's text has been altered with a child reader in mind reveals changing ideas regarding the relevance of King Arthur, and the complex relationship between authors and their imagined juvenile readers. It reveals the profoundly fantasised figures behind literary representations of childhood, and the ways in which Malory's timeless tale, and the figure of King Arthur, have inspired and shaped these fantasies. Dr Elly McCausland is Senior Lecturer in British and American literature at the University of Oslo.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
252
Release Date:
2019-02-15
Publication Date:
2019-02-15
Publisher:
D.S.Brewer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843845199
ISBN13:
9781843845195
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
730 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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