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Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary / edited by G. Partington, A. Smyth.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New Directions in Book History, 2634-6125
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- European literature.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Literature, Modern--19th century.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- European Literature.
- Medieval Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- European Literature.
- Medieval Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349474554
- 134947455X
- 9781137367655
- 1137367652
- 9781137367662
- 1137367660
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