Unacknowledged Legislation
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere is a collection of essays[1] by the author and journalist Christopher Hitchens, published in 2000. It was first published in hardback by the New Left Books imprint, Verso.[2]
 Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere by Christopher Hitchens | |
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Politics |
| Publisher | Verso |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | United States/UK |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 358 |
| ISBN | 1859847862 |
| 820.9/358 | |
| LC Class | PR478.P64 H58 2000 |
Synopsis
editDescribed 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'.
Reception
editIn 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."[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Google Books information
- ^ Library of Congress
- ^ Unacknowledged Legislation, Amazon
- ^ Ley, James (January 14, 2016). "And Yet ... review: The last scraps from the brilliant Christopher Hitchens". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved March 6, 2017.