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Excursions in identity : travel and the intersection of place, gender, and status in Edo Japan / Laura Nenzi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nenzi, Laura.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers' writings, Japanese.
- Japan--Description and travel.
- Japan.
- Japan--Social conditions--1600-1868.
- Social conditions.
- Travelers' writings, Japanese--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Everything Flows 1
- Part I Re-creating Spaces
- 1 Maps, Movements, and the Malleable Spaces of Edo Japan 13
- 2 At the Intersection of Travel and Gender 45
- Part II Re-creating Identities
- 3 Women on the Road: Identities in Motion 71
- 4 Palimpsests: The Open Road and the Blank Page 92
- Part III Purchasing Re-creation
- 5 Print Matters: Popularizing Past and Present 121
- 6 Icons of Escapism 141
- 7 Bodies, Brothels, and Baths: Travel and Physical Re-creation 165
- Conclusion: Dreaming of Walking near Fuji 186.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-248) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780824831172
- 0824831179
- OCLC:
- 182553064
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