Robert Markley

Broschiertes Buch

Dying Planet

Mars in Science and the Imagination

Beschreibung

Analyzes scientific, literary, and popular works of the last century to offer a cross-disciplinary reading of Mars as both an object of scientific study and as a site on which humankind has projected its fears of ecological devastation

Autor

Robert Markley is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of a number of books, including Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660–1740. He is a coauthor of the DVD-ROM Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars and the editor of the book Virtual Realities and Their Discontents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336389
• ISBN-10: 0822336383
• Artikelnr.: 21419545