Chase Richards
Ph.D. Student
ivr [at] sas [dot] upenn [dot] edu
Education
B.A. in History and Classical Languages, University of Kansas (2005)
Fields
modern European cultural/intellectual (1760-1950); modern Europe (1740-1945); early modern European cultural
Research Interests
bourgeois culture in nineteenth-century Germany; history of reading; sociability and the German Enlightenment
Dissertation Topic
With an eye to the burgeoning historical study of German liberalism as well as the Bürgertum, I plan to treat the reception of "popular" publishing initiatives in the German states after the failure of the 1848 revolution. This project, executed as a history of reading, will investigate the cultural impact of frustrated writers' and publishers' efforts to inculcate the values and sentiments of liberalism in the literate German public.
