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Imagining Mars [electronic resource]

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Mars in the human imagination from the invention of the telescope to the present

Title Imagining Mars [electronic resource] : a literary history / Robert Crossley.
Publisher Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press
Creation Date 2011
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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.
Series Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series
Extent 1 online resource (386 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010717438505171
MARC RECORDS
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