Imagining Mars : a literary history / Robert Crossley.

Author/creator Crossley, Robert
Format Book
Publication InfoMiddletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxvii, 353 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series
Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series. ^A582384
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-340) and index.
LCCN 2009052182
ISBN9780819569271 (alk. paper)
ISBN0819569275 (alk. paper)