{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-gawain-poet-derek-s-brewer-9780859914338","title":"A Companion to the Gawain-Poet","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssays intended as a companion to a reading of the works of the \u003ci\u003eGawain\u003c\/i\u003e poet: \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePatience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays collected here on the \u003ci\u003eGawain-Poet\u003c\/i\u003e offer stimulating introductions to \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePatience\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Derek S. Brewer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 085991433X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780859914338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell \u0026amp; Brewer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/11\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.40d","brand":"Derek S. Brewer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48621811728639,"sku":"9780859914338","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-companion-to-the-gawain-poet-derek-s-brewer-9780859914338","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}