Imagining Mars : a literary history / Robert Crossley.
2011
PN3433.6 .C76 2011eb
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Title
Imagining Mars : a literary history / Robert Crossley.
Author
Crossley, Robert.
ISBN
9780819571052 (electronic bk.)
0819571059 (electronic bk.)
1283109743
9781283109741
9786613109743
6613109746
9780819569271
0819569275
0819571059 (electronic bk.)
1283109743
9781283109741
9786613109743
6613109746
9780819569271
0819569275
Imprint
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2011.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Call Number
PN3433.6 .C76 2011eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)711003833
Summary
Mars in the human imagination from the invention of the telescope to the present.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Meaning of Mars
Dreamworlds of the telescope
Inventing a new Mars
Percival Lowell's Mars
Mars and Utopia
H.G. Wells and the great disillusionment
Mars and the paranormal
Masculinist fantasies
Quite in the best tradition
On the threshold of the space age
Retrograde visions
Mars remade
Being there
Becoming Martian
Afterword : Mars under construction.
Dreamworlds of the telescope
Inventing a new Mars
Percival Lowell's Mars
Mars and Utopia
H.G. Wells and the great disillusionment
Mars and the paranormal
Masculinist fantasies
Quite in the best tradition
On the threshold of the space age
Retrograde visions
Mars remade
Being there
Becoming Martian
Afterword : Mars under construction.
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Source of Description
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Series
Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Crossley, Robert. Imagining Mars. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2011
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