Enabling Undergraduate Research - In Search of 'The Angel in the House': Women and Domestic Culture in the Nineteenth Century

This case study offers an account of a research-based undergraduate option offered in Year 2 at Bath Spa University. The project introduces students to primary research in a number of different settings; under the guidance of a supervisor students work in special collections and archives and develop an inquiry into a particular literary period or genre. The study focuses in particular on one strand of the module – ‘In Search of “The Angel in the House”: Women and Domestic Culture in the Nineteenth Century’ – which supports students in exploring representations of domestic life in literature and print culture in the period.