Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary

Contents:
Burning sex subjects: books, homophobia and the Nazi destruction of the Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin / Heike Bauer
Burning to read: Ben Jonson's library fire of 1623 / Adam Smyth
From books to Skoob, or, Media theory with a circular saw / Gill Partington
The complete works of Franz Kafka burned: an interview with Ross Birrell / Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Ross Birrell
Belligerent literacy, bookplates, and graffiti: Dorothy Helbarton's book / Anthony Bale

Doctoring Victorian literature
A Humument: an interview with Tom Phillips / Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Tom Phillips
Miss Cathy's riven th' back off 'Th' helmet uh salvation': representing book destruction in mid-Victorian print culture / Stephen Colclough
Waste matters: Charles Dickens's Our mutual friend and nineteenth-century book recycling / Heather Tilley
Aesthetics of book destruction / Kate Flint
Kindle: recycling and the future of the book: an interview with Nicola Dale / Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Nicola Dale