The Algerine CaptiveRowman & Littlefield, 1970 - 224 sivua One of the first American novels and the first American novel to be published outside America, The Algerine Captive is the fictitious memoir of Updike Underhill, a picaresque Yankee who, after a spate of adventures at home, goes to sea and is ultimately taken captive by the Algerines. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... authors who contributed to the development of the American novel . If we wish , we may apply an ex post facto definition and exclude Francis Hopkinson's Pretty Story from the genre and agree that William Hill Brown's The Power of ...
... authors who contributed to the development of the American novel . If we wish , we may apply an ex post facto definition and exclude Francis Hopkinson's Pretty Story from the genre and agree that William Hill Brown's The Power of ...
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... author is willing to vouch . The puritan suspicion of fiction , so amusing to the twentieth century , was then widely and deeply felt . In his Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century ( New York , 1803 ) the Reverend Samuel Miller , a ...
... author is willing to vouch . The puritan suspicion of fiction , so amusing to the twentieth century , was then widely and deeply felt . In his Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century ( New York , 1803 ) the Reverend Samuel Miller , a ...
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... authors were to find the most fruitful develop- ment of these genres . Travel and romance , congenial by nature , were a nearly inevitable combination in American letters . The educational value of travel literature made it acceptable ...
... authors were to find the most fruitful develop- ment of these genres . Travel and romance , congenial by nature , were a nearly inevitable combination in American letters . The educational value of travel literature made it acceptable ...
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... authors as well , including William Robertson , from whom Carey had plagiarized a good many of his corrections and improve- ments . Tyler combined factual material and fictional frame into a narrative which would at once divert and ...
... authors as well , including William Robertson , from whom Carey had plagiarized a good many of his corrections and improve- ments . Tyler combined factual material and fictional frame into a narrative which would at once divert and ...
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... reflects Brackenridge's own outrage at stupidity and corruption , Underhill does not represent anything . He is neither an allegorical figure nor a mask for the author ; he is a fictional character [ 19 ] THE ALGERINE CAPTIVE.
... reflects Brackenridge's own outrage at stupidity and corruption , Underhill does not represent anything . He is neither an allegorical figure nor a mask for the author ; he is a fictional character [ 19 ] THE ALGERINE CAPTIVE.
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VOLUME I | 31 |
CHAPTER 2 | 37 |
CHAPTER 3 | 41 |
CHAPTER 4 | 43 |
CHAPTER 5 | 45 |
CHAPTER 6 | 48 |
CHAPTER 7 | 51 |
CHAPTER 8 | 56 |
CHAPTER 3 | 126 |
CHAPTER 4 | 129 |
CHAPTER 5 | 133 |
CHAPTER 6 | 136 |
CHAPTER 7 | 139 |
CHAPTER 8 | 144 |
CHAPTER 9 | 146 |
CHAPTER 10 | 149 |
CHAPTER 9 | 58 |
CHAPTER 10 | 63 |
CHAPTER 11 | 65 |
CHAPTER 12 | 67 |
CHAPTER 13 | 72 |
CHAPTER 14 | 74 |
CHAPTER 15 | 76 |
CHAPTER 16 | 77 |
CHAPTER 17 | 78 |
CHAPTER 18 | 79 |
CHAPTER 19 | 81 |
CHAPTER 20 | 83 |
CHAPTER 21 | 87 |
CHAPTER 22 | 89 |
CHAPTER 23 | 90 |
CHAPTER 24 | 93 |
CHAPTER 25 | 96 |
CHAPTER 26 | 99 |
CHAPTER 27 | 101 |
CHAPTER 28 | 103 |
CHAPTER 29 | 105 |
CHAPTER 30 | 107 |
CHAPTER 31 | 111 |
CHAPTER 32 | 115 |
VOLUME II | 121 |
CHAPTER 2 | 124 |
CHAPTER 11 | 151 |
CHAPTER 12 | 152 |
CHAPTER 13 | 154 |
CHAPTER 14 | 156 |
CHAPTER 15 | 159 |
CHAPTER 16 | 168 |
CHAPTER 17 | 170 |
CHAPTER 18 | 172 |
CHAPTER 19 | 174 |
CHAPTER 20 | 175 |
CHAPTER 21 | 177 |
CHAPTER 22 | 180 |
CHAPTER 23 | 184 |
CHAPTER 24 | 186 |
CHAPTER 25 | 188 |
CHAPTER 26 | 191 |
CHAPTER 27 | 194 |
CHAPTER 28 | 197 |
CHAPTER 29 | 199 |
CHAPTER 30 | 201 |
CHAPTER 31 | 207 |
CHAPTER 32 | 213 |
CHAPTER 33 | 215 |
CHAPTER 34 | 217 |
CHAPTER 35 | 219 |
CHAPTER 36 | 220 |
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The Algerine Captive: The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill ... Royall Tyler Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2010 |
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Adonah African Alcoran Algerine Captive Algiers American amused ARGUMENT The Author AUTHOR'S Manuscript Poems Barbary Barbary pirates Bashaw Boston cæsura called camels Captain John Underhill Captain Underhill captured Christian church command confess court Dennie's Dey's divine doctor dollars England English European eyes faith father fellow citizens fortune friends Grand Seignior Greek hand holy honor horse hundred immediately infidel John Glas Joseph Dennie Kaaba labor land language learned letters literary Mahomet Mahometan manners Manuscript Poems ARGUMENT master Mecca Medina miserable Mollah Mussulman nations native never novel observed officer passed patient person physician port practice preceptor present priest prisoners prophet ransom reader received religion renegado respectable retired Royall Tyler sent sherbet ship slavery soon soul Spondee sublime Porte suffered Thomas Paine thousand torment town treaty Tyler Underhill's Updike Underhill vessel whole William Blaxton wretch Xebec young lady
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Sivu 27 - Novels almost as incredible . . . and therefore, no sooner was a taste for amusing literature diffused than all orders of country life, with one accord, forsook the sober sermons and Practical Pieties of their fathers for the gay stories and splendid impieties of the Traveller and the Novelist. The worthy farmer no longer fatigued himself with Bunyan's Pilgrim up "the hill of difficulty...