Elizabeth Della Zazzera
Ph.D. Candidate
edella@sas.upenn.edu
Education
B.A. Honours History with minor in Political Science, University of Ottawa, 2007
M.A. History, University of Victoria, 2009
Research Interests
I am interested in European intellectual and cultural history, and especially the history of print culture, in 19th century France.
Advisor
Disstertation Topic
My dissertation focuses on the relationship between politics and aesthetics in periodicals produced in Restoration era France (1815-1830). In particular, it examines these periodicals as loci for the contestation and development of Romanticism as a political and aesthetic movement in France. It focuses on the intermingling of the aesthetic debate between Romanticism and Classicism with the political debate between royalists and liberals, in a time period where Romanticism was becoming increasingly liberal as it became increasingly defined as a movement. In doing so it hopes to speak to larger issues about the character of political and cultural engagement in the press, and in the public sphere more generally defined.
