Introduction: the world turned upside down
Menippean satire, the fantastic, and the carnivalesque
Literature of atrocity: Lord of the flies and The inheritors
Self-consciousness and the totalitarian personality: Pincher Martin and Free fall
Constructions of fiction and class: The spire and The pyramid
Postmodernity and postmodernism: Darkness visible and The paper men
Historiographic metafiction, preromanticism, and the ship of fools: To the ends of the earth: a sea trilogy
Conclusion: socialist subversions? The radical and reactionary in Golding's satire.