The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor

The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill (Modern Library Classics)

A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tylerâ€™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 exposÃ© of the horrors of the slave trade. â€œIn stylistic purity and the clarity with which Tyler investigates and dramatizes American manners,â€ the critic Jack B. Moore has noted, The Algerine Captive â€œstands alone in our earliest fiction.â€ 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.
Country USA
Brand Modern Library
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 21726252
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2002-07-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375760341

Country	USA
Brand	Modern Library
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	21726252
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2002-07-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375760341

The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill (Modern Library Classics)