CONTENTS
FOREWORD
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LECTURES
ROSELLA
MAMOLI
ZOEI, Genoa Gate o f the Mediterranean:
Nineteenth Century American Writers and Genoa
RONALD
STEEL,
America? Mediterranean Coal
CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER,
Mediterranean Metamorphoses:‘Y?nricoLongfelo:”
Contribution to Multilingual American Literature
FREDMORAMARCO,
YmagineAll That History’: American Vtews of
the Mediterranean and Its People
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ROBERT HAHN,versions of the Mediterranean in American Poetry
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WORKSHOP ONE. American Poetry and the Mediterranean Heritage
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GIANFRANCA
BALESTRA, “Theglory that was Greece, and thegrandeur that was Rome’:
Towards the Holy-Land of Poetry in Edgar Allan Poe
GREGORY
DOWLING,
“Rainbowo’er the Wreck’:.The Two Sides ofMelville: Clare1
ANTONELLA FRANCINI,
“Thepale hems of the masters’gowns”..Mediterranean &ices
and Shadows in the Poetry of Charles Wright
NICOLA
CARDINI,
‘Twas myself’: Lowell and vtrgil
PAOLA
LORETO,Y$bt on the Wharves of Charlotte Amalie/L$ht on the Sparkling
Straits of Sicily’:. Derek Walcott: Aesthetic of (Irresistible)Light in Tiepolo’s Hound
PAOLAA. NARDI,
Marianne Moore and Eqypt
GIUSEPPE
NOM, The Problem of the Priest: The Confrontation with Mediterranean
Art and Culture in Emerson: Poetry
E. h h m T I N PEDERSEN,
The Hellenic League Plays in the New World: Baseball
Poetry Considered
WORKSHOP TWO. The Mediterranean in Italian American
Literature and Culture
SUZANNE
BRANCIFORTE,
Nyage to the Center ofMother Earth:
On Italian American (denti9
SIMONE
CINOTTO, The Tate oflhce: Food in the Narratives of I4merica”and
‘Ttaly”by Italian Immigraws ofNew g r k , 1920-1940
DANIELA
DANIELE,
Mediterranean Cl+pings ofArt and Desire: Mary Caponegro:
Five Doubts
h/lARTINO MARAZZI,
L’umbarco: Il silenzio del Mediterraneo negli scritti d’emigrazione
ELISABETTA UNO, The Mediterranean: Memory and adi it ion in
Two Italian American Writers
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FEDERICO
SINISCALCO,
Video-Interviews: Itulian American Study Abroad Students
in Florence
JOHN PAUL
Russo, Zcbnolow and tbe Mediterrunean in DeLillo2 Underworld
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WORKSHOP THREE. Mediterranean Religiosity in the United States:
Migrating Religions and their Encounters with Other
Religions and Cultures
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MATTEV
SANFILIPPO,
Lkttenzione &iLi Santa Sede all~wiigrazioneitalidzna
negli Stati Uniti
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ELISABETTA VEZZOSI,“Culturalethnic brokers’: Le Mdestw Pie Filippini
negli Stati Uniti
MARIA
SUSANNA
GARRONI,
‘%mzigrantwomen rdigious: a splintered ethnic
and spiritual idenrig” ovvero Le Pallottine: ie moltepiici identitk di
una istituzione reiìgìosafimminile
CRISTINA
MATTIELLO,
Sulesiun Sisters of Don Bosco
STEPHEN
I’ERRIN, “I Got Every Sacrament Behind Me’I
Jim Carroll and t13e hercupable History ofAmerican Catholicism
LEONARDO
BUONOMO,i*heIndiscreet C~harmo f Popery:
Catholicism in Nineteentb-Century Americun Writing
ELLEN
GIN7.BURC MIGLIORINO,
I&m]<WS in the United States in the Early 1340s:
Impressions and L$sZyle changes
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WORKSHOP FOUR. The Vision of the Mediterranean in
Contemporary U.S. Fiction: From the CradIe to the Zone
UMBERTO
ROSSI,Soutb of the Zone: Guerra, ,!?conomia e Reaganomics
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in Catch-22 diJoseph Heller
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GIUSEPPE
COSTIGLIOH,
Mediterranean Histories in Thmas Pynchon? V.
PAOLOPREZZAVENTO,
Wilkiam Buiroughs in k f g i e r
ROBERTA
FORNARI,WWiam S.Buurroughs’The Western Lands
LAURA
SALVINI,
Naked Luiicli: 7 %Movie
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LUCABRLASC~,
Alien Nation: C > p m as the Last Zone in Bruce Sterling?
“OneNation, Invisible” and Zeitgeist
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WORKSHOP FIVE. American Writers and the Mediterranean:
A Comparison of Viewpoints
SARAH WOOD,
A n Alien; Act of Sedition: S t ~ i ~ ~Coherence
tu~l
and North Afiican Attuchments in Tyler; The Algerinc Captive
BARBARA
NUGNES,
Paradise Regained: Wabington Irving; Mythological Spain
SIRpA SALENIIIS,
Ndthaniel Hawthorne; Impressions of Florence
SHIRLEY
FOSTER,
Nineteenth-Cenrclly American views of Naples
DANIELA
E VIRDIS,WallaceStevens’ ‘‘Replyto lhpini”
MARINA
COSLOW,
Pynchon in “Baud.kerLand”
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WORKSHOP SIX. Genoa and the United States in the
Nineteenthth and Twentieth Century
PIERANGELO
CASTAGNETO,
“. . .onde consolidare sempre più i legami che
devono unire le due Repubbliche’: The Origins of the Diplomatic Relations
between the United States ofAmerica and the Republic of Genoa
SUSANNA
DELFINO,
Peace and Commerce with Every Nation: ThomasJgerson
and the Development of American Commercial Policy in the Mediterranean during
the Nineteenth Century
WORKSHOP SEVEN. “Sensitive as Any Woman”:
Nineteenth-CenturyAmerican Women and Mediterranean Masculinities
PATRICIA
THOMPSON
RIZZO,Emily Dickinson: Feminine Masculinig
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in Mediterranean Garb
ANNASCACCHI,
“Bornbeneath a Tropic Sun’: Shades ofBrown andMasculinity
in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Agnes of Sorrento
TATIANA
PETROVICH
NJEGOSH,
Circuits of desire: Henry Jamed Italian Men as
Examples of Sensuous Manliness
PAULA
RASINOWTZ,Meeting on the Corner: Mediterranean Men and Urban
American Women
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WORKSHOP EIGHT. The Mediterranean Education of American Artists
MARIA
VITTORIA
D’AMICO,
“Wisdomand Ecstasy’:. Paul Bowles in the Maghrib
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SALVATORE
MAUANO,
‘Xejlections in Windows’:. The Colors ofAmy Lowell2
Can Grande’sCastle
KURTALBERT
MAYER,
‘i2riuchas I sympathise with the Italians and wish them success’:
Henry Adams’ First Sojourns in Italy, 1859-60
WORKSHOP NINE. Mediterranean Mediations: Transatlantic
Imaginary and Gender Identity
LIANABORGHI,
Crittopafie spaziali di Grace Greenwood, Marion Harland,
Marietta Hollty, Maud Elliott
ALGERINA
NERI,
Ruyall Tyler2 The Algerine Captive and the Sympathetic
Woman Reader
CRISTINA
SCATMCCHIA, From the Grand Tour to the Tour du Monde:
Nellie Biy and the Metamolphosis of Women2 Travels-at the End of
the Nineteenth Century
ALESSANDRA
LORINI,
Ruth Benedict e l’identità digenere tva apollineo e dionisiaco
WORKSHOP TEN. The Sea and Revolution: The Mediterranean,
the Early Republican Age, and U S . Culture
SALVATORE
PROIETTI,Sailing Across the Color Line: On Royal1 Tyler?
The Algerine Captive
RICHARDSAMUELSON,
John Quincy Adams’ Lost History of the Russo- Turkish War:
Greek Independence and the Sacred Cause of Liberg
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CINZIA
SCHIAVINI,
From the Edges of Revolution to the Shores of Modernity: Melville
and the Mediterranean
MARCO
SIOLI,Liberty and Nature: Joel Barlow? Mission to Algiers
IGINATATTONI,
“ThereWas No Roomfor Hesitation”..The Revolution of Time in
Charles Brockden Brown? Arthur Menyn
WORKSHOP ELEVEN. U.S. Middle Eastern Policy in the
Twentieth Century: Aspects and Problems
ANTONIODONNO,US. Middle East Policy in the First H a l f f the Twentieth Century
DANIELE
DE LUCA,Strategic Valuesand Military Policy in the U S . Intervention
in the Middle East (1946-1967)
PAOLA
OLIMPO,
Sharing Responsibility: Congress-Executive Relationship in the Making
ofAmerican Middle Eastern Policy, 1 9 4 - 1 3 6 8
VALENTINA
VANTAGGIO,
Oil andAmerican Foreign Poliry in the Middle East 1928-1956
MWODELPERO,Containing Containment: American Pressures and Italian
Responses during the Early Cold War
WORKSHOP TWELVE. “Wàrs They Have Seen”: Americans
in Mediterranean Conflicts
LUIGIBRUTILIBERATI,
The Stars and Stripes e la campagna d’ltalia dalla Sicilia
a Roma 1943-1944
GABRIELLA
FERRUGGIA,
“That’ll make a letter home”..Dos Passos, One Man’s Initiation,
and World War I
AUGUSTA
MOLINAN,Una guerra vista da lontano. Storie di prigionieri di guerra
Italiani negli Stati Uniti 1943-1946
lvhsslMo RUBBOLI,
‘Friendly service to sufering people’: American and British
Frien& Relief Work in Italy 1943-45
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AFTERWORD
h4ASSIMO
BACIGALUPO,
Pavanefor a Definct Hotel
AUTHOR INDEX
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