Masculine Plural

Masculine Plural: queer classics, sex, and education

by Ingleheart, Jennifer

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The Classics were core to Victorian and Edwardian public school curricula, yet texts with sexual content were regularly expurgated. This text explores the nexus between the Classics, sex, and education through the writings of schoolmaster Philip Gillespie Bainbrigge, which explore homoerotic desires and comment on classical education of the time.

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  • Full title :Masculine Plural : queer classics, sex, and education / Jennifer Ingleheart.

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The Classics were core to Victorian and Edwardian public school curricula, yet texts with sexual content were regularly expurgated. This text explores the nexus between the Classics, sex, and education through the writings of schoolmaster Philip Gillespie Bainbrigge, which explore homoerotic desires and comment on classical education of the time.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2018.
  • Edition:First edition

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780192551603, 0192551604, 9780191859991, 0191859990
  • oclc:on1066078251
  • LC Classification:PA3014.S47
  • Dewey Decimal:880.09

Table of Contents

Cover; Masculine Plural: Queer Classics, Sex, and Education; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; I. Beethoven, Botticelli, Beer, and Boys; II. Pages Passed from Hand to Hand; III. The Classics and Sexuality in Victorian and Edwardian Education; IV. ... and Boys: 'Uranian' Bainbrigge?; DIALOGVS: JOCVNDVS : ROBERTVS; Note on the Text and Translation; Errata; 1: In Decent Latin: Dialogus. Jocundus: Robertus; I. The Decent Obscurity of a Learned Tongue; II. All Greek to Me; III. Tales out of School; IV. Classics and the Schoolroom

2: Sex, Latin, and Scholarship: A.E. Housman's PraefandaI. A Poet and a Scholar; II. Things That Require an Apology; III. Words to Play with; IV. Pleasure in Parentheses; V. Praeteritio; VI. Knowingness; VII. Conclusion; ACHILLES IN SCYROS; Note on the Text; Achilles in Scyros: A Classical Comedy; PREFACE; DRAMATIS PERSONAE; Achilles in Scyros; 3: Here Aphrodite Is Not: Achilles in Scyros; I. Parodies and Burlesques: Models for the Play; II. Masculine Plural: Bainbrigge's Audience and the Homoerotic Literary Tradition; III. Give a Girl a Girl to Greet her: Bainbrigge's Sapphistries

IV. Perhaps There's a Man in the CaseV. A Chan…

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Subjects

Classical education Classical literature Classical literature -- History and cri… Criticism, interpretation, etc Enseignement classique Homosexualité -- Dans la littérature Homosexuality in literature Littérature ancienne -- Histoire et cri… Sex in literature Sexualité dans la littérature

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Ingleheart, Jennifer

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