Skip to main content
Palgrave Macmillan

Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary

  • Book
  • © 2014

Overview

Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Mutilating

  3. Doctoring

  4. Deforming/Reshaping

Keywords

About this book

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.

Reviews

“This lively book helps inaugurate Palgrave’s series New Directions in Book History, the raison d’être of which is to publish “monographs that employ advanced methods and open up new frontiers in research” (i) ... there is much to admire and enjoy in this collection, the quirkiness and scholarliness of which bode well for future volumes in the series.” (Jonathan Gibson, The Open University, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

    Gill Partington

  • Oxford University, UK

    Adam Smyth

About the editors

Anthony Bale, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Heike Bauer, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Ross Birrell, Glasgow School of Arts, Scotland Stephen Colclough, Bangor University, Wales Nicola Dale, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Kate Flint, University of Southern California, USA Tom Philips, artist, UK Adam Smyth, Balliol College, Oxford, UK Heather Tilley, independent scholar, UK

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us