Essays intended as a companion to a reading of the works of the
Gawain poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and
Patience The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer
stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and
original analysis. Topics includetheories of authorship; the
historical and social background to the poems, with individual
sections on particularly important features within them; gender
roles in the poems; the manuscript itself; the metre, vocabulary
and dialect of the poems; and their sources. A section devoted to
Sir Gawain investigates the ideas of courtesy and chivalry found
within it, and explores some of its later adaptations from the
fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Afull bibliography completes
the volume. DEREK BREWER was Emeritus Professor of English
Literature, University of Cambridge; JONATHAN GIBSON has worked as
a lecturer in the Universities of Exeter and Durham. Contributors:
DEREK BREWER, MALCOLM ANDREW, A.C. SPEARING, JANE GILBERT, MICHAEL
J. BENNETT, DAVID AERS, RALPH ELLIOTT, MICHAEL THOMPSON, FELICITY
RIDDY, ANNE ROONEY, MICHAEL LACY, A.S.G. EDWARDS, H.N. DUGGAN,
ELISABETH BREWER, RICHARD NEWHAUSER, HELEN COOPER, NICHOLAS WATSON,
PRISCILLA MARTIN, NICK DAVIS, DEREK PEARSALL, GILLIAN ROGERS, BARRY
WINDEATT, DAVID J. WILLIAMS
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