Fishburn Burning Books

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-58366-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 221 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave History Collection

This provocative new work examines the years between the Nazi book fires and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), a period when book burning captured the popular imagination. It explores how embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural history, and illustrates the enduring appeal of a great cleansing bonfire.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fishburn, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures List of Plates Preface Acknowledgments Introduction The Fear of Books The Burning of the Books The Library of the Burned Books To Hell with Culture Swing, they're burning books Beauty for Ashes Funeral Pyres Postscript: The Path of Cinders Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

MATTHEW FISHBURN is a bookseller with Hordern House Rare Books in Sydney, Australia. He has taught at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Sydney. Together with Mark Tewfik, he is currently working on a book investigating the graffiti written on bombs during the Second World War. This is his first book.