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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823721503321

Autore

Crossley Robert

Titolo

Imagining Mars : a literary history / / Robert Crossley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-10974-3

9786613109743

0-8195-7105-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Collana

Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series

Disciplina

809/.93329923

Soggetti

Science fiction - History and criticism

Mars (Planet) In literature

Mars (Planet)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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