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UNINA9910789984103321 |
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Autore |
Crossley Robert |
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Titolo |
Imagining Mars [[electronic resource] ] : a literary history / / Robert Crossley |
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Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-10974-3 |
9786613109743 |
0-8195-7105-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (386 p.) |
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Collana |
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Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Science fiction - History and criticism |
Mars (Planet) In literature |
Mars (Planet) |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Mars in the human imagination from the invention of the telescope to the present |
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