Title Mobility and modernity : Panama in the nineteenth-century Anglo-American imagination / Robert D. Aguirre

Published Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017] ©20 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Short cuts: the Panama Railroad and the making of the Yankee Strip -- Panama as St. Martin's-le-Grand: communication and mobility in Trollope's the West Indies and the Spanish Main -- Photographing Panama: Eadweard Muybridge and transhemispheric modernity -- The dissonant lyre: the Panama poetry of J.S. Gilbert, "Kipling of the Isthmus" -- Epilogue: The isthmus as tourist paradise Summary "Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination rewrites the history of the Panama Canal, assessing for the first time the literary culture of the preceding decades. In this period, U.S. and British writers and visual artists developed sophisticated languages of mobility, time, and speed to cast the isthmus as an in-between place, a point of connection to more important destinations. These discourses served an important role in their own day and laid the imaginative ground for the canal to come. In this study, Robert D. Aguirre provides bold new interpretations of Anthony Trollope, John Lloyd Stephens, and Eadweard Muybridge and also recovers information about literary communities previously lost to history. Mobility and Modernity shows how Panama became defined as a site of incipient globalization and a crucial link of empire. Across this narrow strip of land people and things traveled, technology developed, and political forces erupted. The isthmus became a site of mobility that paradoxically produced varieties of immobility. Parting ways with histories that celebrate the canal as a mighty engineering feat, Mobility and Modernity reveals a more complex story of cultural conflict that began with the first gold rush news in the late 1840s and continued throughout the century."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Panama Railroad Co. -- History SUBJECT Panama Railroad Co. fast Subject Travelers' writings, British. Travelers' writings, American. HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Literature Travel Travelers' writings, American Travelers' writings, British SUBJECT Panama Canal (Panama) -- History -- 19th century Panama -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097326 Panama Canal (Panama) -- Description and travel Panama Canal (Panama) -- In literature Panama Canal (Panama) -- Pictorial works Subject Panama Panama -- Panama Canal Genre/Form illustrated books. Illustrated works History Pictorial works Illustrated works. Ouvrages illustrés. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780814275214 0814275214

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