Book destruction from the medieval to the contemporary /

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Group Author: Partington, Gill, 1970; Smyth, Adam, 1972
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: 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