Gender and Ghosts

In the mid-nineteenth century, Coventry Patmore published the well-known poem “The Angel in the House,” which defines the Victorian model of the ideal, submissive woman and wife: “Man must be pleased; but him to please / Is woman’s pleasure.” Well into the twentieth century, the Angel in the House w...

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Published in:	Haunting Experiences p. 81
Main Author:	Jeannie Banks Thomas
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	Utah State University Press 15-09-2007
Subjects:	Anthropology Applied anthropology Applied sciences Automobiles Behavioral sciences Children Communications Cultural anthropology Engineering Esotericism Folklore Folkloristics Gender identity Gender studies Ghost stories Ground transportation Ground vehicles Human behavior Human populations Legends Masculinity Men Motor vehicles Mysticism Narratives Persons Population studies Practical theology Religion Religious experience philosophy Sacred mysteries Sexual violence Social sciences Supernatural legends Supernaturalism Theology Transportation Transportation modes Violence Violence against women
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Summary:	In the mid-nineteenth century, Coventry Patmore published the well-known poem “The Angel in the House,” which defines the Victorian model of the ideal, submissive woman and wife: “Man must be pleased; but him to please / Is woman’s pleasure.” Well into the twentieth century, the Angel in the House was still haunting women and urging them to sacrifice their own happiness and “fling” themselves down “the gulf” of their husbands’ “necessities” (Melani 2005; Patmore 2003). Virginia Woolf famously wrote that she had to eradicate the Angel in order to write truthfully: “Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing
ISBN:	0874216362 9780874216363
DOI:	10.2307/j.ctt4cgmqg.8