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Masculine Plural - Queer Classics, Sex, and Education (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,580
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Masculine Plural - Queer Classics, Sex, and Education (Hardcover): Jennifer Ingleheart

Masculine Plural - Queer Classics, Sex, and Education (Hardcover)

Jennifer Ingleheart

Series: Classical Presences

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Classical Presences
Release date: September 2018
Authors: Jennifer Ingleheart (Professor of Latin)
Dimensions: 223 x 148 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-881967-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Education > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > Gay studies (Gay men)
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Sexual relations
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-19-881967-6
Barcode: 9780198819677

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