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Second Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 442 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-427) and indexes. Contents; Introduction / Derek Brewer -- 1. Theories of Authorship / Malcolm Andrew -- 2. Poetic Identity / A. C. Spearing -- 3. Gender and Sexual Transgression / Jane Gilbert -- 4. The Historical Background / Michael J. Bennett -- 5. Christianity for Courtly Subjects: Reflections on the Gawain-Poet / David Aers -- 6. The Materials of Culture. Landscape and Geography / Ralph Elliott. Castles / Michael Thompson. Feasts / Derek Brewer. Jewels in Pearl / Felicity Riddy. The Hunts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Anne Rooney. Armour I / Michael Lacy. Armour II: The Arming Topos as Literature / Derek Brewer. The Colour Green / Derek Brewer. Some Names / Derek Brewer -- 7. The Manuscript: British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x / A. S. G. Edwards -- 8. Meter, Stanza, Vocabulary, Dialect / H. N. Duggan -- 9. Sources I: The Sources of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Elisabeth Brewer -- 10. Sources II: Scriptural and Devotional Sources / Richard Newhauser -- 11. The Supernatural / Helen Cooper -- 12. The Gawain-Poet as a Vernacular Theologian / Nicholas Watson -- 13. Allegory and Symbolism / Priscilla Martin -- 14. Narrative Form and Insight / Nick Davis -- 15. Courtesy and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Order of Shame and the Invention of Embarrassment / Derek Pearsall -- 16. Sir Gawain: Some Later Versions. The Grene Knight / Gillian Rogers. Sir Gawain at the fin de siecle: Novel and Opera / Barry Windeatt. Sir Gawain in Films / David J. Williams. Subjects; Gawain-poet. Gawain-poet Criticism and interpretation. Gawain (Legendary character). British Library Manuscript Cotton Nero A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Pearl (Middle English poem). Patience (Middle English poem). Purity (Middle English poem). Gawain and the Grene Knight. 3 Kg.