title: Shipwrecked
abstract: <DIV> </DIV><DIV><I>Shipwrecked: Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World</I> presents the first comparative study of notable literary shipwrecks from the past four thousand years, focusing on Homer's <I>Odyssey</I>, Shakespeare's <I>The Tempest</I>, and Defoe's <I>Robinson Crusoe</I>. James V. Morrison considers the historical context as well as the "triggers" (such as the 1609 Bermuda shipwreck) that inspired some of these works, and modern responses such 
journal: University of Michigan Press eBooks