Publication News: Bibliophobia

Published by Oxford University Press, Bibliophobia is a book about books, how they have been cared for, and how they have been damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty-first-century experiences of paranoia and literary apocalypse.

Before arriving at York, Professor Cummings was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and then Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and looks after his books very well.