Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book

Author:   Brian Cummings (Anniversary Professor, University of York and Fellow of the British Academy)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780192847317


Pages:   592
Publication Date:   10 February 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Brian Cummings (Anniversary Professor, University of York and Fellow of the British Academy)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   1.008kg
ISBN:  

9780192847317


ISBN 10:   0192847317
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   10 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Preface Note on Texts I. DEATH OF THE BOOK 1: Is there a future for the book? 2: The library as computer 3: The message of Ashurbanipal from antiquity 4: Living in the Tower of Babel II. BOOKS AND VIOLENCE 5: The book-fires of 1933 6: The making and unmaking of libraries 7: Incombustible heresy in the age of Luther 8: The bondage of the book III. SACRED TEXT 9: The mystery of Arabic script 10: The unnameable Hebrew God 11: How the alphabet came to Greece from Africa 12: The characters of Chinese IV. THE CULT OF THE BOOK 13: Words and images 14: Kissing the book 15: Books under the razor 16: Shakespeare and bibliofetishism V. THE BODY AND THE BOOK 17: The book incarnate 18: The hand in the history of the book 19: Written on the flesh 20: Book burial VI. GHOST IN THE BOOK 21: The book after the French Revolution 22: The smartphone inside our heads 23: Heresy and modernity 24: Glyph Notes Bibliography

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As a book historian, I felt dazzled...It is full of treasures and sparkling insights...be prepared to be led through a rich gallery of intriguing scenarios at a cracking pace. I advise taking a deep breath before diving in. * Martyn Lyons, Modern Philology * Richly illustrated with textual forms, material objects and art works, this book's inspiration remains staunchly within the power that books always (and continue to) have amid the emotional, spiritual, bodily and imaginative lives of readers. * David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews *


As a book historian, I felt dazzled...It is full of treasures and sparkling insights...be prepared to be led through a rich gallery of intriguing scenarios at a cracking pace. I advise taking a deep breath before diving in. * Martyn Lyons, Modern Philology * Richly illustrated with textual forms, material objects and art works, this book's inspiration remains staunchly within the power that books always (and continue to) have amid the emotional, spiritual, bodily and imaginative lives of readers. * David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews * It is full of treasures and sparkling insights...Be prepared to be led through a rich gallery of intriguing scenarios at a cracking pace. * Martyn Lyons, University of New South Wales, Modern Philology *


Richly illustrated with textual forms, material objects and art works, this book's inspiration remains staunchly within the power that books always (and continue to) have amid the emotional, spiritual, bodily and imaginative lives of readers. * David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews *


Author Information

Brian Cummings is Anniversary Professor at the University of York. Before arriving at York, he was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and then Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He has held visiting fellowships at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich; the University of Toronto; and the Folger Library in Washington D.C. In 2012, he gave the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University; in 2013, the Margaret Mann Phillips Plenary Lecture at the Renaissance Society of America; he has also given the British Academy annual Shakespeare Lecture and the Shakespeare Birthday Lecture in Washington D.C. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

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