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Coventry Patmore’s The Angel in the House, first published in 1854, isviewed as the founding text of a stereotypical Victorian domestic ideol-ogy. Upon closer examination, however, the poem betrays a certain bru-tality, with its brand of English womanhood posited against a barbaric,pre-civilized past and the rude Other of Empire. Patmore’s logic indefending against the threat of reversion to primitivism is Petrarchism,in which the Englishwoman is placed upon a glorified pedestal.Throughout, the Englishwoman is painted with the heightened sensationof Orientalismshe is not merely unknowable, she is as unknowable asa foreign land; she is not just a queen, she is the head of an imperial uni-verse; she is not merely a jewel, she is the Koh-i-noor, the supreme dia-
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Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House, Petrarchism, impe-rialism,Orientalism, nationhood, domesticity, sexuality, femininity,Englishness, Victorian era
