Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn

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.

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.