Biography, Literature and Literary Studies, History and Criticism, General
Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary

Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary

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Hardback Published on: 12/09/2014
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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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
  • ISBN: 9781137367655
  • Number of pages: 216
  • Dimensions: 226 x 146 x 18 mm
  • Weight: 396g
  • Languages: English