Portable magic a history of books and their readers
"Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines,...
| Main Author: | Smith, Emma (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Magic books
- Beginnings: East, West and Gutenberg
- Queen Victoria in the trenches
- Christmas, gift books and abolition
- Shelfies: Anne, Marilyn and Madame de Pompadour
- Silent Spring and the making of a classic
- The Titanic and book traffic
- Religions of the book
- 10 May 1933: burning books
- Library books, camp, and malicious damage
- Censored books: '237 goddams, 58 bastards, 31 Chrissakes, and 1 fart'
- Mein Kampf : freedom to publish?
- Talismanic books
- Skin in the game: book-binding and African-American poetry
- Choose Your Own Adventure: readers' work
- The empire writes back
- What is a book?
- Epilogue: Books and transformation.