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
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