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

About the Author

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

Reviews

A valuable addition to the study of the reception of Malory and of his place in the development of children's lit as a field, but could also be read by anyone interested in the formation of English literary canons.
*ANGLIA*

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*

[R]epresents an excellent piece of scholarship and should serve as an important piece of research within Arthuriana.
*CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY*