There’s a very cool section in the latest issue of Late Imperial China devoted to engaging the arts as late imperial (or early modern) historians. I have a little piece in the issue on fictioning with late imperial Chinese history and it’s a sneak peek of the monograph I’m finishing. The essay is sisters with the recent PMLA piece on fictioning with history, and the two contain … Continue reading Imagining History/Writing Late Imperial China
Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto‘s new book explores these questions in a compelling study that brings together the public discourse on women in the Tokugawa period (including prescriptive literature, instruction manuals for women, representations of women in fiction and drama, woodblock prints, and book illustrations) … Continue reading The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan: An Interview
The newest little history by Elizabeth Woodfall (historian of wind) is now available at The Elizabeths, and you can find it by heading over to The History of Clouds, where you’ll meet a bored goddess and her gardener. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading Clouds: A Little History
The newest history by Elizabeth Rively (historian of burial) is now available at The Elizabeths. This is a story of an elevator-haunting ghost, and you can find it in The History of Steel. (To celebrate the new site for the project, for the first time you can listen to this story as well as read it. More readings coming soon!) For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual … Continue reading Steel: A Little History (and a new home!)
A new history by Elizabeth Turvey (historian of flame) is now available at The Elizabeths. It’s the story of constellations, and of lovers, and of gods, and of fruit, and of little stone cats, and you can find it by heading over to The History of Stars. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading Stars: A Little History
A new history by Elizabeth Turvey (historian of flame) is now available at The Elizabeths. It’s the story of a lonely maker of momentary gods, and you can find it by heading over to The History of Smoke. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading Smoke: A Little History
The newest history by Elizabeth Turvey (historian of flame) is now available at The Elizabeths. It’s another springtime story that further fleshes out Elizabeth’s ongoing geography of burning, and you can find it by heading over to The History of Fireflies. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading Fireflies: A Little History
The newest history by Elizabeth Rively (historian of burial) is now available at The Elizabeths. This Elizabeth writes of burial, of earth and the things inside it, and you’ll see this in The History of Fossils. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading Fossils: A Little History
The first history by Elizabeth Rively (historian of burial) is now available at The Elizabeths. (She is the maddest of the Elizabeths and you can learn a little about her here.) This Elizabeth writes of earth and the things it carries, and you’ll find this in The History of Salt. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading Salt: A Little History
The newest little history by Elizabeth Woodfall (historian of wind) is now available at The Elizabeths, and you can find it by heading over to The History of Blue and meeting a woman made of ink. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Blue: A Little Story
Carla Nappi 