Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
From Realism to the Affective Turn: An Agenda....Pages 1-17
‘…Just as It would have been in 1861’: Stuttering Colonial Beginnings in ABC’s Outback House....Pages 18-38
‘Recreating Chaos’: Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave....Pages 39-49
On Being a Mobile Monument: Historical Reenactments and Commemorations....Pages 50-62
What Should We Do about Slavery? Slavery, Abolition and Public History....Pages 63-78
Reenactment and Neo-Realism....Pages 79-89
Textual Realism and Reenactment....Pages 90-108
‘No Witnesses. No Leads. No Problems’: The Reenactment of Crime and Rebellion....Pages 109-133
R. G. Collingwood, Historical Reenactment and the Early Music Revival....Pages 134-158
‘From Wigwam to White Lights’: Popular Culture, Politics, and the Performance of Native North American Identity in the Era of Assimilationism....Pages 159-179
Mimic Toil: Eighteenth-Century Preconditions for the Modern Historical Reenactment....Pages 180-199
Loutherbourg’s Simulations: Reenactment and Realism in Late-Georgian Britain....Pages 200-217
Back Matter....Pages 218-229