Sites of Exchange

Maurizio Ascari is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bologna (Italy). He is the author of In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind (1997), La leggibilità del male (1998) and I linguaggi della tradizione (2005). He has also edited and translated works by Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, William Faulkner, Jack London and William Wilkie Collins.Adriana Corrado is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples, Italy. She has published several books, essays and articles, mostly in the field of Utopian literature and the English Gothic novel. To mention but a few: William Godwin illuminista romantico (1988); Da un’isola all’altra. Il pensier utopico nella narrativa inglese da Thomas More ad Aldous Huxley (1988); Mary Shelley, donna e scrittrice. Una rilettura (2000); Quattro storie di vampiri nell’Inghilterra dell’Ottocento, ed. by Adriana Corrado (2002); Dall’utopia all’utopismo. Percorsi tematici, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Raymond Trousson and Adriana Corrado (2003).

• Acknowledgements Maurizio ASCARI and Adriana CORRADO: Introduction1. The Grand Tour and the MediterraneanManfred PFISTER: Travelling in the Traces of…Italian Spaces and the Traces of the OtherEdward CHANEY: Egypt in England and America: The Cultural Memorials of Religion, Royalty and RevolutionMarino NIOLA: The Invention of the MediterraneanAlvio PATIERNO: Vesuvius for Everyone in 19th Century FrancePaola PAUMGARDHEN: Goethe and Von Archenholz in Naples in 1787: Views of the City between Myth and RealityAdriana CORRADO: Glances at Naples, Centre of Campania Felix: First Step towards a Complex Cultural Theme2. Water and Cultural MemoryDavid SKILTON: Water and MemoryDavid SKILTON: Ruin and the Loss of Empire: From Venice and New Zealand to the ThamesEleonora FEDERICI: Rose Macaulay’s Fabled Shore: Driving through Cities and LandscapesFranca Zanelli QUARANTINI: Water, Mourning and the Quest for Origin in Irène Némirovsky’s WorksOlga BINCZYK: The Modern Voyage: In Search of Identity in the Light of Selected Works of English Writers of the 1930s3. Literature and CityscapesMonica SPIRIDON: The City of TextsSusan BASSNETT: Seismic Aftershocks: Responses to the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755Katia PIZZI: Sites of Exchange and Topographies of Memory at the Northeastern Borders of ItalyMonica SPIRIDON: Memories of a Post-Metropolis: “Torre e Tasso” across the AtlanticPeter VASSALLO: Valletta (meta)fictionalised historiographically in Thomas Pynchon’s V4. Borders and ConflictsMaurizio ASCARI: Borders, Frontiers and BoundariesMaurizio ASCARI: Shifting Borders: The Lure of Italy and the Orient in the Writings of 18th and 19th Century British travellersGraham DAWSON: The ‘Ulster’-Irish Border, Protestant Imaginative Geography and Cultural Memory in the Irish TroublesJola ŠKULJ: Cultural Spaces in Border TerritoriesPaola VILLANI: The Redemption of the SirenDianna PICKENS: Captive NaplesAdriana CORRADO: Concluding RemarksNotes on Contributors