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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 September 2018
- ISBN 9780198819677
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 223x148x27 mm
- Weight 580 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Classics were core to Victorian and Edwardian public school curricula, yet texts with sexual content were regularly expurgated. This book 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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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.
I.'s [Ingleheart's] masterful commentaries of Bainbrigge's and Housman's texts, along with her discussions of the broader contexts, are world-class. She has excavated a fascinating chapter in the history of (classical) education and the history of sexuality.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Dialogus. Jocundus: Robertus
In Decent Latin: Dialogus. Iocundus: Robertus
Sex, Latin, and Scholarship: A. E. Housman's Praefanda
Achilles in Scyros
Here Aphrodite Is Not: Achilles in Scyros
Conclusion: Queer Classics
Appendix: Roman Rhymes
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
