Book destruction from the medieval to the contemporary
By: edited by Adam Smyth and Gill Partington
Series: New directions in book history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781137367655
Subjects: Book burning; History; Books; Mutilation, defacement; Libraries; Destruction and pillage; Altered books; Waste books; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Burning sex subjects : books, homophobia and the Nazi destruction of the Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin / Heike Bauer; title: Burning to read : Ben Jonson's library fire of 1623 / Adam Smyth; title: From books to Skoob, or, Media theory with a circular saw / Gill Partington; title: The complete works of Franz Kafka burned : an interview with Ross Birrell / Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Ross Birrell; title: Belligerent literacy, bookplates, and graffiti : Dorothy Helbarton's book / Anthony Bale; title: Doctoring Victorian literature; title: A Humument : an interview with Tom Phillips / Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Tom Phillips; title: Miss Cathy's riven th' back off 'Th' helmet uh salvation' : representing book destruction in mid-Victorian print culture / Stephen Colclough; title: Waste matters : Charles Dickens's Our mutual friend and nineteenth-century book recycling / Heather Tilley; title: Aesthetics of book destruction / Kate Flint; title: Kindle : recycling and the future of the book : an interview with Nicola Dale / Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Nicola Dale.