Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan by Gerald Figal

Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan

Gerald Figal

304 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced

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Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of tradit...

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