A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics.
Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'. In over thirty magnificent essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie, and with his trademark wit, rigour and flair, master critic Christopher Hitchens dispels the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature. Instead, Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a true moral argument.
I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, and inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens. - Gore Vidal
- ISBN10 1782394680
- ISBN13 9781782394686
- Publish Date 4 December 2014 (first published 24 January 2001)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 16 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Atlantic Books
- Edition Main - Print on Demand
- Format Paperback
- Pages 448
- Language English