Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

About this book

Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelleys 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.