Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface 1
5. Introduction. Nationalism, Everyday Life, and the Myth of Eternal Return 7
6. Chapter 1 .Competing Masculinities in Meiji Japan 19
7. Chapter 2. The Mythos of Masculinization Narratives of Heroism and Historical Identity 72
8. Chapter 3. The Aestheticization of Everyday Life Inventing the Modern Memory of Edo 121
9. Chapter 4. The Lure of the Modern Imagining the Temporal Spaces of City and Countryside 177
10. Conclusion Oedipus in Chains Eternal Return and the Memory of the Epic Past 235
11. Notes 241
12. Bibliography 283
13. Index 303