Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary

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Year of Publication
2014
Contributors Editor: Gill Partington
Editor: Adam Smyth
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Number of Pages
216 pp.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
Basingstoke, England
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ISBN
9781137367655
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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