{"title":"Royall Tyler","description":"Caleb Crain is the author of American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.","products":[{"product_id":"the-algerine-captive-or-the-life-and-adventures-of-doctor-updike-underhill-paperback","title":"The Algerine Captive: Or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Algerine Captive\u003c\/i\u003e 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 exposé 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Algerine Captive\u003c\/i\u003e \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374358724831,"sku":"9780375760341","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/XeDevHzqQZ9780375760341.webp?v=1789178815"},{"product_id":"a-reading-of-the-tale-of-genji-paperback","title":"A Reading of The Tale of Genji - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe seven essays in this book present an in-depth reading of The Tale of Genji. They are entitled \"Genji and Murasaki: Between Love and Pride\"; \"Genji and Suzaku: The Disaster of the Third Princess\"; \"Genji and Suzaku: The Possibility of Ukifune\"; \"Genji and the Luck of the Sea\"; \"Pity Poor Kaoru\"; \"Two Post-Genji Tales on The Tale of Genji\"; and \"Feminine Veils over Visions of the Male.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376773660895,"sku":"9780994571533","price":20.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kGiVLjy2Tg9780994571533.webp?v=1789225301"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/royall-tyler.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}