Travel with The United Fruit Company
This edition presents how the United Fruit Company promoted their Caribbean tourism through travel advertisements. By annotating these historical documents through timelines, maps, and images, this project shows how various visual components help researchers understand the UFC’s octopus enterprise in the Caribbean.
Loveday Brooke and Neo-Victorian Depictions of Women Detectives, by Elena Bolstad
By Elena Bolstad
Catherine Louisa Pirkis’s The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1893) is both a historically important stepping stone in feminist literature and a blueprint for the modern-day neo-Victorian woman detective. Recently, there has been a noticeable uptick in modern media depictions of Victorian women detectives. Inspecting Loveday Brooke through a modern lens can explain why there’s a recent influx of Victorian women detectives on stage and screen and can explore to what extent these representations pay homage to Pirkis’s titular character.