Burning Issues
Fire in Art and the Social Imagination

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- Contents
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1. Fabled Fires
2. Dreaming Fire/Shedding Light
3. The Intimate Flame
4. Playing with Fire
Postscript: ‘A Dreadful Prankster’
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index
“What makes this brilliant book so important is not so much its subject matter as its methodology. Single subject books have been written on all kinds of topics, from tears to oysters to earwax. Many profess to be global and exhaustively encyclopedic. What sets Burning Issues apart is its author’s determination to deliver on that promise. . . . There are other reasons to be excited about this book, which constantly shows us Phoenix rising with both hope and purpose from all sorts of charred ashes.”
“Moving along its varied approaches, [the book] rewards with a generous gallery of paintings and photographs, most of which are likely to be new to the reader. . . . Krell’s treatment of the domesticized flame ranges widely, considering paintings of reading by candlelight and an analysis of the sexualized fires of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, for example.”
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