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Book destruction from the medieval to the contemporary
- Title
- Book destruction from the medieval to the contemporary / edited by Gill Partington and Adam Smyth.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 14-5637 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, 216 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- New directions in book history
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 Partington and Tom Phillips -- Miss Cathy's riven th' back off 'Th' helmet uh salvation' : representing book destruction in mid-Victorian print culture / Stephen Colclough -- Waste matters : Charles Dickens's Our mutual friend and nineteenth-century book recycling / Heather Tilley -- Aesthetics of book destruction / Kate Flint -- Kindle : recycling and the future of the book : an interview with Nicola Dale / Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Nicola Dale.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-5637
- ISBN
- 9781137367655
- 1137367652
- LCCN
- 2014022061
- 40024209759
- OCLC
- 881655933
- Title
- Book destruction from the medieval to the contemporary / edited by Gill Partington and Adam Smyth.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New directions in book history
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Partington, Gill, 1970- editor.Smyth, Adam, 1972- editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024209759
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-5637