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.

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: From Realism to the Affective Turn: An Agenda; I.McCalman & P.A.Pickering ...