Imagining Mars [electronic resource] : a literary history / Robert Crossley.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crossley, Robert
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2011 .
Series:Early classics of science fiction
Subjects:
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Mars (Planet) > In literature.
Mars (Planet)
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2011 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2011 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2011 (EBSCO)
eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost): 2011 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Imagining Mars: A Literary History
Format: Electronic eBook
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.