Title

The Transatlantic Romance of Celestial Motion: Revolutionary Objects and Fictional Historiography

Publication Date

2008

Document Type

Article

Comments

Gunn, Robert Lawrence. “The Transatlantic Romance of Celestial Motion: Revolutionary Objects and Fictional Historiography.” The Wordsworth Circle, vol. 39, no. 1/2, 2008, pp. 7–11. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24045177.

Abstract

This article explores a transatlantic rhetorical archive of celestial tropes at the end of the eighteenth-century, drawing connections between the writings of Thomas Paine, Immanuel Kant, and others with the fiction and literary theories of American novelist Charles Brockden Brown.

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