Unacknowledged Legislation

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

About the author

Christopher Hitchens, geboren 1949 im englischen Portsmouth, war als Buchautor und Auslandskorrespondent, Essayist, Literaturkritiker und Dozent tätig. Er schrieb regelmäßig u.a. für die New York Times, Slate, Vanity Fair und das Wall Street Journal. Christopher Hitchens verstarb 2011.

Summary

A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics

Foreword

A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics

Report

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

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Hitchens
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2014
• EAN: 9781782394686
• ISBN: 978-1-78239-468-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 233 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 602 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; History, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, General & world history, Religion & politics, Social and cultural history, Literary essays, Society and culture: general, Literature: history and criticism