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      Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

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

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

      Unacknowledged Legislation is a...

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      Product ID:9781782394686
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Unacknowledged Legislation
      Subtitle:Writers in the Public Sphere
      Authors:Author: Christopher Hitchens
      Page Count:448
      Subjects:Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, USA, English
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      A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics

      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


      Imprint Name:Atlantic Books
      Publisher Name:Atlantic Books
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2014-12-04

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      Weight680 g
      Dimensions157 × 234 × 32 mm