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Masculine Plural

Queer Classics, Sex, and Education. Classical Presences

By (author) Jennifer Ingleheart
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 27th Sep 2018
Dimensions: w 148mm h 223mm d 28mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN-10: 0198819676
ISBN-13: 9780198819677
Barcode No: 9780198819677
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Synopsis
The Classics were core to the curriculum and ethos of the intensely homosocial Victorian and Edwardian public schools, yet ancient homosexuality and erotic pedagogy were problematic to the educational establishment, which expurgated classical texts with sexual content. This volume analyses the intimate and uncomfortable nexus between the Classics, sex, and education primarily through the figure of the schoolmaster Philip Gillespie Bainbrigge (1890-1918), whose clandestine writings not only explore homoerotic desires but also offer insightful comments on Classical education. Now a marginalized figure, Bainbrigge's surviving works - a verse drama entitled Achilles in Scyros featuring a cross-dressing Achilles and a Chorus of lesbian schoolgirls, and a Latin dialogue between schoolboys - vividly demonstrate the queer potential of Classics and are marked by a celebration of the pleasures of sex and a refusal to apologize for homoerotic desire. Reprinted here in their entirety, they are accompanied by chapters setting them in their social and literary context, including their parallels with the writings of Bainbrigge's contemporaries and near contemporaries, such as John Addington Symonds, E. M. Forster, and A. E. Housman. What emerges is a provocative new perspective on the history of sexuality and the place of the Classics within that history, which demonstrates that a highly queer version of Classics was possible in private contexts.

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Ingleheart demonstrates generosity in opening up her knowledge of Bainbrigges life, work and context so that those whose Latin is not as expert as hers might still engage in a conversation about this important topic of research. * Emily Rutherford, Columbia University, The English Historical Review * [Ingleheart] has recently developed an impressive body of scholarship on the importance of Rome at the intersections between the fields of classical reception studies and the history of sexuality...Masculine Plural continues this trajectory, adding further nuance through several case studies, and sets out to explore what a 'truly queer Classics' could look like. * Jeffrey Murray, The Classical Review *