Created by Emily Dupuis
Clara Bromley: Atlantic Adventuress or Imperial Intruder? explores Clara Fitzroy Kelly Bromley’s 1853 journey around the Caribbean, North America, Mexico, and South America. Using text analysis tools, it critically examines her travel narrative focusing on her live reality and her blindness to or downplaying of slavery and oppression. The tools used, Voyant and Orange, help to reveal patterns potentially lost during a close reading of the text, including which words Clara reflexively relies on to communicate her feelings and quantitative data on the role of sentiment in her writing.The project also explores, the value of text analysis itself, and, in this way, provides an introduction to the methodology, which is both useful to those new to it and those teaching it.
