Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary

Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary - New Directions in Book History

2014

Hardback (12 Sep 2014)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781137367655
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2014
DEWEY: 363.3109
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xi, 216
Weight: 396g
Height: 226mm
Width: 146mm
Spine width: 18mm