A brilliant fantasy that will hook you from the very first page, set aboard a huge ship-city in which the elites live on the top decks while the Filthies toil…

An account of the major movements in literary theory up to the late 1960s, with an international focus and particular emphasis on European thinkers. The principles of each theoretical position…

Challenges the foundation of recent literary and language-based theory, offering instead a syntagmatic approach to language. Covers ‘post-Chomskyan’ linguistics, deconstruction, analytic and speech-act theory.

Williams covers aspects of the construction and the skilled craftsmen that worked on these ships, and many others, from the Edwardian era to the 1920s, revelling in atmospheric views of…