The Algerine Captive

or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill

By:

Royall Tyler

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Modern Library Classics

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A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive is an entertaining romp through eighteenth-century society, a satiric look at a variety of American types, from the backwoods schoolmaster to the southern gentleman, and a serious expose of the horrors of the slave trade. "In stylistic purity and the clarity with which Tyler investigates and dramatizes American manners," the critic Jack B. Moore has noted, The Algerine Captive "stands alone in our earliest fiction." It is also one of the first attempts by an American novelist to depict the Islamic world, and lays bare a culture clash and diplomatic quagmire not unlike the one that obtains between the United States and Muslim nations today.

Author Biography:

Caleb Crain is the author of American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.

Release date NZ

July 9th, 2002

Author

Royall Tyler

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Caleb Crain

Illustrations

3 b&w illus

Pages

304

Series

Modern Library Classics

Dimensions

131x203x17

ISBN-13

9780375760341

Product ID

4727826

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