Laura Nenzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Nenzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Nenzi |
| SIGNATURE | NENZI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2263-9342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Traditions of East Asian Travel
Although the topic of travel and travel writing by Chinese and Japanese writers has recently begun to attract more interest among scholars in the West, it remains largely virgin terrain with vast tracts awaiting scholarly examination. This book offers insights into how East Asians traveled in the early modern and modern periods, what they looked for, what they felt comfortable finding, and the ways in which they wrote up their impressions of thes…
The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko
The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko is the story of a rural Mito woman – a political activist, oracle, poet, and teacher – whose life coincided with the late-Tokugawa crisis, the collapse of the shogunate, and the rise of the modern Meiji state. Tokiko’s political activism combines focus and visionary flights of the imagination, nuancing our understanding of political consciousness among the non-elites in nineteenth-century Japan by blurring …
W. Puck Brecher. The Aesthetics of Strangeness
An embarrassment to the Meiji modern project first and to imperial ambitions later, eccentrics have been long left out of historical narratives of early modern Japan. More recently they have been dismissed for their inability to spark political revolutions (a task at which their Western colleagues, by contrast, excelled) or even just to redefine the existing social and cultural order. With The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness i…
An Imperial Concubine's Tale
Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Three Ways to Be Alien
Three Ways to Be Alien examines the “friction and discomfort, at both the existential and the conceptual levels” (p. 173), that the early modern broadening of horizons engendered. Covering an impressive geographical area and chronological span, from the Western Mediterranean to India, from the 1530s to the 1720s, it draws on a vast range of sources—letters, contracts, diplomatic records, testaments, personal chronicles—to tell the stories (always…
Portents and Politics
This essay examines the deployment of revelations and prophetic dreams in the writings of two female political activists of the bakumatsu period, Kurosawa Tokiko and Nomura Bōtō. As a rhetorical device, the supernatural enabled Kurosawa and Nomura to foster their affiliation with the loyalists, to envision order, and to justify their actions. As a weapon and as a shield, it offered a sense of entitlement and the illusion of invulnerability. Studi…
Caught in the spotlight
In the fall of 1858 a large comet crossed the skies of Japan. Casting its light over a society in turmoil, torn apart by political factionalism and threatened by a virulent cholera epidemic, economic collapse, and foreign encroachment, the 1858 comet quickly became the centerpiece of diverging interpretations on the state of society, the country, or the world in general. To some, the ‘strange star’ was an ominous symbol of impending catastrophe, …
Excursions in Identity
In the Edo period (1600–1868), status-and gender-based expectations largely defined a person's place and identity in society. The wayfarers of the time, however, discovered that travel provided the opportunity to escape from the confines of the everyday. Cultured travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries wrote travel memoirs to celebrate their profession as belle-lettrists. For women in particular the open road and the blank page offe…
To Ise at All Costs
If pilgrimages are ideal platforms for contention, nowhere more than in early modern nukemairi did tensions come to the fore so prominently, and contrasting interests clash so stridently. This article looks at Edo-period (1600-1868) unauthorized pilgrimages to highlight the inherent disjunctions between the interests of the individual and those of the community, and between the priorities of faith and the practical necessities of the economy. It …
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To Ise at All Costs
If pilgrimages are ideal platforms for contention, nowhere more than in early modern nukemairi did tensions come to the fore so prominently, and contrasting interests clash so stridently. This article looks at Edo-period (1600-1868) unauthorized pilgrimages to highlight the inherent disjunctions between the interests of the individual and those of the community, and between the priorities of faith and the practical necessities of the economy. It …
Excursions in Identity
In the Edo period (1600–1868), status-and gender-based expectations largely defined a person's place and identity in society. The wayfarers of the time, however, discovered that travel provided the opportunity to escape from the confines of the everyday. Cultured travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries wrote travel memoirs to celebrate their profession as belle-lettrists. For women in particular the open road and the blank page offe…
Caught in the spotlight
In the fall of 1858 a large comet crossed the skies of Japan. Casting its light over a society in turmoil, torn apart by political factionalism and threatened by a virulent cholera epidemic, economic collapse, and foreign encroachment, the 1858 comet quickly became the centerpiece of diverging interpretations on the state of society, the country, or the world in general. To some, the ‘strange star’ was an ominous symbol of impending catastrophe, …
Portents and Politics
This essay examines the deployment of revelations and prophetic dreams in the writings of two female political activists of the bakumatsu period, Kurosawa Tokiko and Nomura Bōtō. As a rhetorical device, the supernatural enabled Kurosawa and Nomura to foster their affiliation with the loyalists, to envision order, and to justify their actions. As a weapon and as a shield, it offered a sense of entitlement and the illusion of invulnerability. Studi…
An Imperial Concubine's Tale
Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Three Ways to Be Alien
Three Ways to Be Alien examines the “friction and discomfort, at both the existential and the conceptual levels” (p. 173), that the early modern broadening of horizons engendered. Covering an impressive geographical area and chronological span, from the Western Mediterranean to India, from the 1530s to the 1720s, it draws on a vast range of sources—letters, contracts, diplomatic records, testaments, personal chronicles—to tell the stories (always…
W. Puck Brecher. The Aesthetics of Strangeness
An embarrassment to the Meiji modern project first and to imperial ambitions later, eccentrics have been long left out of historical narratives of early modern Japan. More recently they have been dismissed for their inability to spark political revolutions (a task at which their Western colleagues, by contrast, excelled) or even just to redefine the existing social and cultural order. With The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness i…
The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko
The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko is the story of a rural Mito woman – a political activist, oracle, poet, and teacher – whose life coincided with the late-Tokugawa crisis, the collapse of the shogunate, and the rise of the modern Meiji state. Tokiko’s political activism combines focus and visionary flights of the imagination, nuancing our understanding of political consciousness among the non-elites in nineteenth-century Japan by blurring …
Traditions of East Asian Travel
Although the topic of travel and travel writing by Chinese and Japanese writers has recently begun to attract more interest among scholars in the West, it remains largely virgin terrain with vast tracts awaiting scholarly examination. This book offers insights into how East Asians traveled in the early modern and modern periods, what they looked for, what they felt comfortable finding, and the ways in which they wrote up their impressions of thes…
History (8 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Japan (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works)