Publisher description for Burning books / Matthew Fishburn.
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Book burning is one of the taboos of modernity, due in part to its association with the Nazi book fires. This event provides the focus for a study of the broader history of destroying a book by fire, arguing for a more complex and nuanced understanding of the uses of book burning in the literary culture of the twentieth-century.
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Book burning -- History.