Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary [electronic resource] /
Partington, G.editor.
Smyth, A.editor.
This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Burning; 1 Burning Sexual Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin; 2 Burning to Read: Ben Jonson's Library Fire of 1623; Part II: Mutilating; 3 From Books to Skoob;  Or, Media Theory with a Circular Saw; 4 'Book Torture': An Interview with Ross Birrell; Part III: Doctoring; 5 Belligerent Literacy, Bookplates and Graffiti: Dorothy Helbarton's Book; 6 Doctoring Victorian Literature - A Humument: An Interview with Tom Phillips; Part IV: Degrading
7 'Miss Cathy's riven th' back off "Th' Helmet uh Salvation"': Representing Book Destruction in Mid-Victorian Print Culture8 Waste Matters: Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and Nineteenth-Century Book Recycling; Part V: Deforming/Reshaping; 9 The Aest hetics of Book Destruction; 10 Kindle - Recycling and the Future of the Book: An Interview with Nicola Dale; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.
Literature, Modern.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
European literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
European Literature.
Medieval Literature.