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Imagining Mars : a literary history / Robert Crossley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crossley, Robert.
- Series:
- Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series.
- Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction--History and criticism.
- Science fiction.
- Mars (Planet)--In literature.
- Mars (Planet).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (386 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mars in the human imagination from the invention of the telescope to the present
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-10974-3
- 9786613109743
- 0-8195-7105-9
- OCLC:
- 767498449
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