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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. Dialogvs, Jocvndvs: Robertvs -- In Decent Latin: Dialogus. Jocundus: Robertus -- Sex, Latin, And Scholarship: A. E. Housman's Praefanda -- Achilles In Scyros -- Here Aphrodite Is Not: Achilles In Scyros. Jennifer Ingleheart. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 303-328) And Index.
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Publication Date:
1900-01-01
Homosexualité dans la littérature
SEX IN LITERATURE
Littérature ancienne--Étude et enseignement--Histoire
Littérature ancienne--Étude et enseignement--Grande-Bretagne--Histoire
Classical literature--Study and teaching--History
Gay erotic literature--History and criticism
Classical literature--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History
Sexualité dans la littérature
Littérature érotique homosexuelle--Histoire et critique
Gay erotic literature
Classical literature--Study and teaching
HOMOSEXUALITY IN LITERATURE
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