Masculine plural

Masculine plural: queer classics, sex, and education

by Ingleheart, Jennifer

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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 expl…

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

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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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2018
  • Edition:First edition (viii, 344 pages)

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  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780192551603, 0192551604, 9780191859991, 0191859990
  • oclc:on1052766448
  • LC Classification:PA3014.S47
  • Dewey Decimal:810/820

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 LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classic… Littérature ancienne -- Histoire et cri… Sex in literature Sexualité dans la littérature

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Ingleheart, Jennifer

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