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

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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.

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