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Mobility and modernity : Pa...
"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
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monografia Rebiun35310346 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun35310346 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 170809s2017 ohu ob 001 0 eng d 1187215616 9780814275214 electronic bk.) 0814275214 electronic bk.) 9780814213445 0814213448 9780814254301 0814254306 AU@ 000067677235 22573/ctv151172r JSTOR N$T eng rda pn N$T OCLCO YDX EBLCP OCL UAB OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ JSTOR OCL OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ INARC OCLCO OCLCL ncpn--- e-uk--- n-us--- HIS 025000 bisacsh LIT 000000 bisacsh LIT 004120 bisacsh LIT 004100 bisacsh LIT 004050 bisacsh LIT 020000 bisacsh 972.87 23 Aguirre, Robert D. author Mobility and modernity Panama in the nineteenth-century Anglo-American imagination Robert D. Aguirre Columbus The Ohio State University Press [2017] Columbus Columbus The Ohio State University Press 20 2017 1 online resource 1 online resource Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index 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 "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 Panama Railroad Co.- History Panama Railroad Co. Travelers' writings, British Travelers' writings, American Écrits de voyageurs américains HISTORY- Latin America- México LITERARY CRITICISM- General. Literature. Travel. Travelers' writings, American. Travelers' writings, British. Panama Canal (Panama)- History- 19th century Panamá- History Panama Canal (Panama)- Description and travel Panama Canal (Panama)- In literature Panama Canal (Panama)- Pictorial works Canal de Panamá (Panamá)- Histoire- 19e siècle Panamá- Histoire Canal de Panamá (Panamá)- Descriptions et voyages Canal de Panamá (Panamá)- Dans la littérature Canal de Panamá (Panamá)- Ouvrages illustrés Panamá https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdx9kJcd7ywkt4hGVxv73 Panamá- Panama Canal. illustrated books. Illustrated works. History. Pictorial works. Illustrated works. Ouvrages illustrés. Print version Aguirre, Robert D. Mobility and modernity. Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017] 9780814213445 (DLC) 2017016259 (OCoLC)975412157