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Country
  
United States/UK

Publisher
  
Verso

Pages
  
358

Author
  
Christopher Hitchens

ISBN
  
1859847862



Language
  
English

Publication date
  
2000

Originally published
  
2000

Page count
  
358

Subject
  
Politics

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Media type
  
Print (hardcover and paperback)

Similar
  
Christopher Hitchens books, Other books

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere is a collection of essays by the author and journalist Christopher Hitchens, published in 2000. It was first published in hardback by the New Left Books imprint, Verso.

Contents

Synopsis

Described as 'A celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world', 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'.

Reception

In 2016, James Ley of The Sydney Morning Herald listed Unacknowledged Legislation among the books from Hitchens that "[represent] the best of his work as a journalist, literary critic and cultural commentator."

References

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere Wikipedia