Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2014
Author
Editor: Gill Partington
Editor: Adam Smyth
Language
English
Number of Pages
216 pp.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
Basingstoke, England
Region
Europe
Demographics
LGBTQ
Chronological Period
14th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
1800-1849
1850-1899
18th century
1900-1949
1950-1999
21st century
ISBN
9781137367655
Annotation

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
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