Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary New Directions in Book History 2014th Edition Michael Perfect 1137367660 9781137367662

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• ISBN 10: 1137367660
• ISBN 13: 9781137367662
• Author: Michael Perfect

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:

Part I Burning

Chapter 01: Burning Sexual Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin

Chapter 02: Burning to Read: Ben Jonson’s Library Fire of 1623

Part II Mutilating

Chapter 03: From Books to Skoob; Or, Media Theory with a Circular Saw

Chapter 04: ‘Book Torture’: An Interview with Ross Birrell

Part III Doctoring

Chapter 05: Belligerent Literacy, Bookplates and Graffiti: Dorothy Helbarton’s Book

Chapter 06: Doctoring Victorian Literature – A Humument: An Interview with Tom Phillips

Part IV Degrading

Chapter 07: ‘Miss Cathy’s riven th’ back off “Th’ Helmet uh Salvation”‘: Representing Book Destruction in Mid-Victorian Print Culture

Chapter 08: Waste Matters: Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend and Nineteenth-Century Book Recycling

Part V Deforming/Reshaping

Chapter 09: The Aesthetics of Book Destruction

Chapter 10: Kindle – Recycling and the Future of the Book: An Interview with Nicola Dale

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