Settler and Creole Reenactment

Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them.

VANESSA AGNEW is Associate Professor in the German Department, University of Michigan, USA where she researches and teaches on the cultural history of eighteenth-century music, travel, and historical reenactment. She is the author of Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds and Georg Forsters Voyage Round the World, and coeditor of several volumes on reenactment. She has held research fellowships at the Australian National University, Universitt Paderborn, National Maritime Museum, Humboldt Universitt, and Forschungszentrum Europische Aufklrung. She is currently working on a monograph on German historical reenactment and a travel book about patterns.

JONATHAN LAMB has taught at the University of Auckland, Princeton, and Vanderbilt. Currently he is a visiting fellow at Kings College, Cambridge. He is author of Preserving the Self in the South Seas and The Evolution of Sympathy. He is completing a book on things and the imagination for Princeton University Press, as well as two further collections on maritime reenactment and affective cognition for PalgraveMacmillan, together with a book on the psychological effects of scurvy.