Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary

List of Illustrations Notes on the contributors Introduction; Adam Smyth and Gill Partington PART I: BURNING 1. Burning Sex Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin; Heike Bauer 2. Burning to Read: Ben Jonson's Library Fire of 1623; Adam Smyth PART II: MUTILATING 3. From Books to Skoob; Or, Media Theory with a Circular Saw; Gill Partington 4. The Complete Works of Franz Kafka Burned [interview]; Ross Birrell PART III: DOCTORING 5. Belligerent Literacy, Bookplates, and Graffiti: Dorothy Helbarton's Book; Anthony Bale 6. Doctoring Victorian Literature: A Humument [interview]; Tom Phillips PART IV: DEGRADING 7. 'Miss Cathy's riven th' back off 'Th' Helmet uh Salvation'': Representing Book Destruction in Mid-Victorian Print Culture; Stephen Colclough 8. Waste Matters: Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and Nineteenth-Century Book Recycling; Heather Tilley PART V: DEFORMING/RESHAPING 9. Aesthetics of Book Destruction; Kate Flint 10. Kindle : Recyling and the future of the book [interview]; Nicola Dale Bibliography Index