Editions:

• Andrew, Malcolm and Ronald Waldron (Eds.). Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Exeter 1987.
• Cawley, A. C. and J. J. Anderson (Eds.). Pearl, Cleanness, Patience ans Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. London/New York 1976.
• Gollancz, Israel (Ed.). Cleanness: An Alliterative Tripartitr Poem on the Deluge, the Destruction of Sodom, and the Death of Belshazzar, by the Poet of Pearl, with a new translation by Derek Brewer. Cambridge 1974.

Studies:

• Bennett, Michael J. Community, Class and Careerism: Cheshire and Lancashire Society in the Age of 'Gawain'. Cambridge 1983.
• Crawford, Donna. "The Architectonics of Cleanness," SP 90 (1993):29-45.
• Glenn, Jonathan A. "Dislocation of 'Kynde' in the Middle English 'Cleanness'," ChauR 18 (1983):77-91.
• Ingledew, Francis. "Liturgy, Prophecy, and Belshazzar's Babylon: Discourse and Meaning in Cleanness," Viator 23 (1992):247-279.
• Markus, Manfred. Moderne Erzählperspektive in den Werken des Gawain- Autors. Regensburg 1971
• Means,Michael H. The Homiletic Structure of 'Cleanness'," SMC 5 (1975):165-172.
• Potkay, Monica Brzezinski. "Cleanness's Fecund and Barren Speech Acts," SAC 17 (1995):99-109.

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