Imagining Mars a literary history / Robert Crossley.

Author/creator Crossley, Robert
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMiddletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press,
Descriptionxvii, 353 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
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SeriesEarly classics of science fiction
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.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009052182
ISBN9780819569271 (alk. paper)

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