Primary Texts:
- Wharton, Edith, from Collected Stories 1891-1910 (Library of America, NY: 2001): “Souls Belated,” “The Duchess at Prayer,” “The House of the Dead Hand.”
-Wharton, Edith, from Collected Stories 1911-1937 (Library of America, NY: 2001): “A Glimpse,” “Roman Fever.”
- Wright, Sarah Bird, ed., from Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings (St. Martin’s Griffin, NY: 1996): “Italian Backgrounds” pp. 87-112).
-Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms (1929), Penguin 2004.
-Williams, William Carlos, A Voyage to Pagany (1928), pp. 85-135; 259-267.
-Steinbeck, John, Positano (1953).
-Cheever, John, from Collected Stories and Other Writings (Library of America, NY: 2009): “The Bella Lingua,” “The Duchess,” “Brimmer,” “The Golden Age,” “The Death of Justina,” “Clementina,” “Boy in Rome,” “Marito in città.”
Martin, Valerie, Italian Fever, Vintage Books, NY: 2000

Critical Biliography:
-CULLER, Jonathan, "Semiotics of Tourism" (1981-1990, available online);
-MACCANNELL, Dean, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class,
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1976-1999, Introduction (pp.1-16); Chapts.
5 (pp. 91-107), 6 (pp. 109-133);
-URRY, John, and LARSEN Jonas, The Tourist Gaze 3.0, SAGE, 1990-2011,
Chapt. 1 (pp.1-30).
-Thompson Carlo, Travel Writing Routledge, London: 2011, Chapts 2 (pp. 9-33), 6 (pp. 130-167), 7 (pp. 168-198).
-Zuelow, Eric G.E., A History of Modern Tourism, Palgrave, 2016.
-Peel, Robin, “Wharton and Italy,” in Rattray, Laura, ed., Edith Wharton in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2012, pp. 285-292.
-Peel, Robin, “Realism and Ritual in the Italian Short Stories of Edith Wharton,” Journal
of the Short Story in English, 58 | 2012 (available online)
Prampolini, Gaetano, “Italy in John Cheever’s Fiction,” Rivista di Studi Anglo-Americani, 1984-1985, (4-5), pp. 153-169.
-De Biasio Anna, “The Gaze and the Iceberg: War Tourism in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929)”, RSAJournal, 28 (2017), pp. 37-55 (available online).
-Francescato, Simone and Martinez, Carlo, “Introduction,” RSAJournal, 28 (2017), pp. 9-20 (available online).