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Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
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Hardcover
from Verso Books (February 1, 2001)
9781859847862 | details & prices | 358 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $25.00
Paperback
from Verso Books (January 1, 2003)
9781859843833 | details & prices | 358 pages | 6.00 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.38 lbs | List price $14.00
About: A celebration of Percy Shelleyâs assertion that âpoets are the unacknowledged legislators of the worldâ, these thirty-plus essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretzâs âbloody crossroadsâ.
About: A celebration of Percy Shelleyâs assertion that âpoets are the unacknowledged legislators of the worldâ, these thirty-plus essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretzâs âbloody crossroadsâ.