Crossley, Robert.

Imagining Mars a literary history / [electronic resource] : Robert Crossley. - Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2011. - xvii, 353 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. - Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Science fiction--History and criticism.


Mars (Planet)--In literature.
Mars (Planet)


Electronic books.

PN3433.6 / .C76 2011eb

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