to enforce a due respect among other nations...BY UNITING WE STAND, BY DIVIDING WE FALL." Form of novel Numerous formal elements distinguish The Algerine Captive. The novel's division into two volumes allows for a natural break in the narrative between life in America and in North Africa. It is thought the two volumes also differ greatly in tone: Volume 1 follows the format of "a satire and a picaresque," whereas Volume 2 is dominated by "earnestness" and abolitionist sentiment. In addition, each brief chapter within the two volumes begins with an epigraph and an "Argument," which details the proceedings of the chapter in a summary, which sometimes misleads the reader by inaccurately representing the chapter's contents. Reception The Algerine Captive was popular enough that it was reprinted in England, becoming only the second American novel to achieve that distinction. Notes References Crain, Caleb (2002). "Introduction". In Royall Tyler, The Algerine Captive or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, pp. xvii-xxxiii. New York: Modern Library. . Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Gardner, Jared. Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature 1787-1845. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Mackenthun, Gesa. “The Transoceanic Emergence of American ‘Postcolonial’ Identities.’ In A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America, edited by Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005. Tyler, Royall. The Algerine Captive: Or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill. New York: The Modern Library, 2002. University of Virginia Library. University of Virginia Library: Early American Fiction. Retrieved May 8, 2005. West Virginia University. Taylor, Royall. Retrieved May 8, 2005. Further reading 1797 novels Captivity narratives American autobiographical novels 18th-century American novels Picaresque novels Works published anonymously