Historical Reenactment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. From Realism to the Affective Turn: An Agenda

   • Iain McCalman, Paul A. Pickering

   Pages 1-17

3. ‘…Just as It would have been in 1861’: Stuttering Colonial Beginnings in ABC’s Outback House

   • Anja Schwarz

   Pages 18-38

4. ‘Recreating Chaos’: Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave

   • Katie Kitamura

   Pages 39-49

5. On Being a Mobile Monument: Historical Reenactments and Commemorations

   • Stephen Gapps

   Pages 50-62

6. What Should We Do about Slavery? Slavery, Abolition and Public History

   • James Walvin

   Pages 63-78

7. Reenactment and Neo-Realism

   • John Brewer

   Pages 79-89

8. Textual Realism and Reenactment

   • Jonathan Walker

   Pages 90-108

9. ‘No Witnesses. No Leads. No Problems’: The Reenactment of Crime and Rebellion

   • Paul A. Pickering

   Pages 109-133

10. R. G. Collingwood, Historical Reenactment and the Early Music Revival

    • Kate Bowan

    Pages 134-158

11. ‘From Wigwam to White Lights’: Popular Culture, Politics, and the Performance of Native North American Identity in the Era of Assimilationism

    • Ruth B. Phillips, Trudy Nicks

    Pages 159-179

12. Mimic Toil: Eighteenth-Century Preconditions for the Modern Historical Reenactment

    • Simon During

    Pages 180-199

13. Loutherbourg’s Simulations: Reenactment and Realism in Late-Georgian Britain

    • Iain McCalman

    Pages 200-217

14. Back Matter

    Pages 218-229

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Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about the relationship between realism and affect.

• America
• assimilation
• Britain
• culture
• Great Britain
• history
• history of literature
• identity
• knowledge
• music
• performance
• politics
• realism
• slavery

• University of Sydney, Australia

  Iain McCalman

• Research School of Humanities, The Australian National University, Australia

  Paul A. Pickering

IAIN MCCALMAN is Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of HIstory at the University of Sydney, Australia

PAUL PICKERING is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at the Research School of Humanities at The Australian National University.

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