Imagining Mars a literary history /

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 . - 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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780819571052 (electronic bk.)




Science fiction--History and criticism.


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


Electronic books.

PN3433.6 / .C76 2011

809/.93329923