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This chapter focuses on the understudied connections between short-term study abroad programs and historical reenactment. While short-term study abroad programs focusing on earlier eras need not be conscious forms of historical reenactment, with every walking tour or site visit they, intentionally or not, elicit affective responses in their participants. Reenactment is an investigative practice that has as its goal, in the idiom of Victorian theater, to “realize” a particular historical moment or series of moments. By bringing the past to life in the present, reenactment as an investigative practice seeks to engender historical insights that cannot be gleaned by analyzing textual sources alone.
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I borrow these phrases from Herbert Tucker’s quite differently focused study of Robert Browning’s monologue (Tucker 1994: p. 25).
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Thus, Polly was not asked for her fourpence until about an hour after she arrived at the lodging house. When she could not produce it, the deputy turned her out of doors. “I’ll soon get my doss money,” she boasted to the deputy keeper. Confident that a black item of finery that she had only just obtained would attract a paying customer, she proclaimed, “See what a jolly bonnet I am wearing” (“Whitechapel Horror” 1888: p. 3). By the time she encountered her friend Emily Holland at the corner of Osborn Street and Whitechapel Road at 2:30 a.m., she admitted to having acquired but spent a total of twelve pence. Determined to earn her dosshouse money one final time, she stumbled forward in the direction of Buck’s Row, where, in a dark gateway, she was killed.
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For a reflective piece on the exhibition by the curators, see Hamlett and Fleming (2018).
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See Samuel’s discussion of the emergence of living history in schools from the 1960s (Samuel 1996: p. 193).
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Morrison, K.A. (2019). Study Abroad and/as Historical Reenactment. In: Study Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23006-7_4
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