Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction The World Turned Upside Down -- 2 Menippean Satire, the Fantastic, and the Carnivalesque -- 3 Literature of Atrocity Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors -- 4 Self-Consciousness and the Totalitarian Personality Pincher Martin and Free Fall -- 5 Constructions of Fiction and Class The Spire and The Pyramid -- 6 Postmodernity and Postmodernism Darkness Visible and The Paper Men -- 7 Historiographic Metafiction, Preromanticism, and the Ship of Fools To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy -- 8 Conclusion Socialist Subversions? The Radical and Reactionary in Golding's Satire -- Bibliography -- Index.