2 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.
Ayn Rand's 1936 first novel — her most autobiographical — depicting three young people's struggle for survival and individuality in the early Soviet Union, based on her own experience in Petrograd before she emigrated — a direct portrayal of Soviet totalitarianism from within.