Imagining Mars : A Literary History.
Title:
Imagining Mars : A Literary History.
Author:
Crossley, Robert.
ISBN:
9780819571052
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (314 pages)
Series:
Early Classics of Science Fiction
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Meaning of Mars -- 2 Dreamworlds of the Telescope -- 3 Inventing a New Mars -- 4 Percival Lowell's Mars -- 5 Mars and Utopia -- 6 H. G. Wells and the Great Disillusionment -- 7 Mars and the Paranormal -- 8 Masculinist Fantasies -- 9 Quite in the Best Tradition -- 10 On the Threshold of the Space Age -- 11 Retrograde Visions -- 12 Mars Remade -- 13 Being There -- 14 Becoming Martian -- Afterword: Mars under Construction -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Mars in the human imagination from the invention of the telescope to the present.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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