Masculine Plural: Queer Classics, Sex, and Education

ISBN-13: 9780198819677 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 368 str.

Jennifer Ingleheart

Opis

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.

Recenzje

[Ingleheart] has recently developed an impressive body of scholarship on the importance of Rome at the intersections between the fields of classical reception studies and the history of sexuality...Masculine Plural continues this trajectory, adding further nuance through several case studies, and sets out to explore what a 'truly queer Classics' could look like.

O autorze

Jennifer Ingleheart is Professor of Latin at Durham University. She was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford, and took up a lectureship at Durham University after completing her doctorate in 2004. She is the author of A Commentary on Ovid, Tristia, Book 2 (OUP, 2010) and the editor of Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid (OUP, 2011), and Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities (OUP, 2015). Her ongoing projects focus on books that have been censored or censured for their sexual content, and on the translation of Classical culture into modernity.