Unacknowledged legislation
Subtitle: writers in the public sphere
By: Christopher Hitchens.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- English-speaking countries.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Authors, American -- Political and social views.; Authors, English -- Political and social views.; American literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Originally published: London ; New York : Verso, c2000.
Table of contents: title: I. "In praise of ...": The Wilde side; title: Oscar Wilde's socialism; title: Lord Trouble; title: George Orwell and Raymond Williams; title: Oh, Lionel! [P.G. Wodehouse]; title: Age of ideology; title: The real thing [Michael Frayn]; title: The cosmopolitan man [Gore Vidal]; title: After-time; title: Ireland; title: Stuck in neutral; title: A regular bull [Whittaker Chambers]; title: Not dead yet [Salman Rushdie]; title: Against sinister perfectionism [Robert Conquest, Ezra Pound]; title: Mid off, not right on [V.S. Naipaul].; title: II. "In spite of themselves...": Old man Kipling; title: Critic of the booboisie [H.L. Mencken]; title: Goodbye to Berlin [Isaiah Berlin, Marxism, Zionism]; title: The grimmest tales [Roald Dahl, censorship of children's books]; title: The importance of being Andy [Warhol]; title: How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot; title: Powell's way [Anthony Powell]; title: Something about the poems [Philip Larkin]; title: The egg-head's egger-on [Saul Bellow]; title: Bloom's way [Allan Bloom]; title: Lightness at midnight [Martin Amis on Stalin].; title: III. "Themes...": Hooked on Ebonics; title: In defence of plagiarism; title: Ode to the West Wing.; title: IV.: "For their own sake...": O'Brian's great voyage [Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander series]; title: The case of Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The road to West Egg [Great Gatsby]; title: Rebel in evening clothes [Dorothy Parker]; title: The long littleness of life [Isherwood].; title: V. "Enemies list...": Running on empty [Tom Wolfe]; title: Unmaking friends [Norman Podhoretz]; title: Something for the boys [Tom Clancy]; title: The cruiser [Conor Cruise O'Brien].