Shipwrecked Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World

This book presents the first comparative study of notable literary shipwrecks from the past four thousand years, focusing on Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. James V. Morrison considers the historical context as well as the "triggers"...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2016
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