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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction - Nationalism, Everyday Life, and the Myth of Eternal Return
Chapter 1 - Competing Masculinities in Meiji Japan
Clothes make the Man
Caricaturing the State
The Vice of Frivolity and Extravagance
Authenticating Masculinity
Neckties and High Collars
Barbarism, Adventure, and Imperialism
Fashioning Civilization
Chapter 2 - The Mythos of Masculinization: Narratives of Heroism and Historical Identity
The Hero as the Agent of Order
Adventure Novels, Heroes, and Imperialism
Torture the Women!
From Boys to Men
Oshikawa Shunrō and the Creation of Hypermasculine Heroes
Iconic Heroes in History
Nationalism, Vigilante Justice, and the Politics of Direct Action
Chapter 3 - The Aestheticization of Everyday Life: Inventing the Modern Memory of Edo
The Measure of Loyalty
The Memory of Righteous Resistance and the Ghosts of Edo
Kobayashi Kiyochika in the Autumn of Edo
Narrating the History of Edo
The Tricentennial Celebration of Tokyo
History Amid the Ruins
The Genroku Boom and the Commercialization of Edo
The Eroticization of the Past
The Culture of Everyday Life
Chapter 4 - The Lure of the Modern: Imagining the Temporal Spaces of City and Countryside
Mass Culture, Moral Panic, and Nostalgia
The Rural Exodus
Degenerate Schoolgirls and the Awakening of Female Desire
The Monstrous City
The Light of the Home
Yanagita Kunio, Fads, and the Homogenization of Tastes
Conclusion - Oedipus in Chains: Eternal Return and the Memory of the Epic Past
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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