{"product_id":"9781936249428","title":"Looking Westward: Poetry, Landscape, and Politics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight","description":"In Looking Westward, the author argues that a close study of the poetry, landscape, and politics of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Wales and the Welsh March is important to a fuller understanding of the Gawain-poet and his poem. Although the poem was likely composed in the northwest Midlands, little attention has been paid to the influences of the west: the Welsh alliterative poets and Henry Grosmont, the physical landscape of Wales and the March, and the political tensions that generated a historical beheading tradition, especially between 1265 and 1330, a tradition that gave way in the court of Edward III to the desire for a harmonious Camelot. This new literary, geographical, and historical perspective provides a better understanding of Sir Gawain and the virtues he embodies and acquires, and the relevance of these virtues in the turbulence of the poet’s contemporary world.","brand":"University of Delawarer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183605203184,"sku":"9781936249428","price":51.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936249428_p0.jpg?v=1763658570","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936249428","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}