The Algerine Captive

or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill

Royall Tyler, Caleb Crain

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Random House Inc
15 July 2002

Prose: non-fiction; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: 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 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.

By: Royall Tyler
Introduction by: Caleb Crain
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 254g
ISBN: 9780375760341
ISBN 10: 0375760342
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 July 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill

American literature cannot be charged with poverty while it has such valuables [as Royall Tyler] uninvested in its forgotten repositories. -Evert A. Duyckinck