Book destruction from the medieval to the contemporary
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Book destruction from the medieval to the contemporary
(New directions in book history / series editors, Jonathan Rose and Shafquat Towheed)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
- : [hbk.]
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-212) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Notes on the contributors Introduction
- Adam Smyth and Gill Partington PART I: BURNING 1. Burning Sex Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin
- Heike Bauer 2. Burning to Read: Ben Jonson's Library Fire of 1623
- Adam Smyth PART II: MUTILATING 3. From Books to Skoob
- Or, Media Theory with a Circular Saw
- Gill Partington 4. The Complete Works of Franz Kafka Burned [interview]
- Ross Birrell PART III: DOCTORING 5. Belligerent Literacy, Bookplates, and Graffiti: Dorothy Helbarton's Book
- Anthony Bale 6. Doctoring Victorian Literature: A Humument [interview]
- Tom Phillips PART IV: DEGRADING 7. 'Miss Cathy's riven th' back off 'Th' Helmet uh Salvation'': Representing Book Destruction in Mid-Victorian Print Culture
- Stephen Colclough 8. Waste Matters: Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and Nineteenth-Century Book Recycling
- Heather Tilley PART V: DEFORMING/RESHAPING 9. Aesthetics of Book Destruction
- Kate Flint 10. Kindle : Recyling and the future of the book [interview]
- Nicola Dale Bibliography Index
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