3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel following Robinson Crusoe's 28-year survival on a deserted island after a shipwreck — the first English novel — which served as Rousseau's model for Emile's natural education and as the founding myth of Enlightenment individualism and colonial enterprise.
Shakespeare's final solo play — following Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, who controls a magic island, enslaves Caliban and Ariel, and uses a tempest to bring his enemies to him before choosing forgiveness over revenge — widely read as Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre.
Account of Irish indentured servitude and early colonialism in the Caribbean — referenced in the History 102 context of discussions about early American colonial history and the Irish diaspora.