Book destruction from the medieval to the contemporary /
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : |
Publication Dates: | 2014. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New directions in book history
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Carrier Form: | xi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-212) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781137367655 : 1137367652 |
Index Number: | Z659 |
CLC: | G253-09 |
Call Number: | G253-09/B724 |
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 Partingto |