Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
 Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere by Christopher Hitchens | |
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
|---|---|
| Country | United States/UK |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Politics |
| Publisher | Verso |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 358 |
| ISBN | 1859847862 |
| 820.9/358 | |
| LC Class | PR478.P64 H58 2000 |
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere is a 2003 collection of essays [1] by the author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. It was first published in hardback by the New Left Books imprint, Verso.[2]
Synopsis
Described as 'A celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world',[3] the book contains thirty-eight essays on writers such as Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling, Philip Larkin, H.L. Mencken, Anthony Powell, T.S. Eliot and Salman Rushdie, in which Hitchens attempts to 'dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature'.
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