{"product_id":"malorys-magic-book-9781843845195","title":"Malory's Magic Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn examination of the numerous adaptations of Malory's \u003ci\u003eMorte Darthur\u003c\/i\u003e for children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the time when the writer J.T. Knowles first adapted Thomas Malory's \u003ci\u003eMorte Darthur\u003c\/i\u003e for a juvenile audience in 1862, there has been a strong connection between children and the Arthurian legend. Between 1862 and 1980, numerous adaptations of the \u003ci\u003eMorte\u003c\/i\u003e were produced for a young audience in Britain and America. They participated in cultural dialogues relating to the medieval, literary heritage, masculine development, risk, adventure and mental health through their reworking of the narrative.\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e children frequently become books \u003ci\u003eabout\u003c\/i\u003e 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 inspiredand shaped these fantasies.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dr ELLY MCCAUSLAND is Senior Lecturer in British and American literature at the University of Oslo.","brand":"Elly McCausland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280342462715,"sku":"9781843845195","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781843845195.jpg?v=1772487519","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/malorys-magic-book-9781843845195","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}