| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
a literary history |
| Author: |
CrossleyRobert, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Middletown, Conn. |
| Published: |
Wesleyan University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xvii, 353 p.)ill. (chiefly col.). : |
| Series: |
Early classics of science fiction |
| Subject: |
Science fiction - History and criticism - |
| Subject: |
Mars (Planet) - |
| Subject: |
Mars (Planet) - In literature - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780819571052/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-340) and index |
| ISBN: |
9780819571052electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780819569271hbk. |
| Content Note: |
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 |