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Cover of Imagining Mars: a literary history

Imagining Mars: a literary history

✍ Scribed by Crossley, Robert;


Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Year
2010;2011
Tongue
English
Weight
656 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


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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