Primary Texts:
-HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel, "My Visit to Niagara" (1835, available online);
-HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel, The Marble Faun (1860), introduction by R. Brodhead, Penguin;
-TWAIN, Mark, The Innocents Abroad (1869, chapts. I, II VI, XII, XIX), introduction by Tom Quirk, Penguin;
-JAMES, Henry, Daisy Miller (1878) and Other Stories, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009;
- WHARTON, Edith, from Collected Stories 1891-1910 (Library of America, NY: 2001): “Souls Belated,”
- WHARTON, Edith, from Collected Stories 1911-1937 (Library of America, NY: 2001): “Roman Fever.”
- WRIGHT, Sarah Bird, ed., from Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings (St. Martin’s Griffin, NY: 1996): “Italian Backgrounds” pp. 87-112).
- 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).
- Peel, Robin, “Realism and Ritual in the Italian Short Stories of Edith Wharton,” Journal of the Short Story in English, 58 | 2012 (available online);
- BUZARD James, The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800-1918, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 1-17;
- MARTINEZ, Carlo, “‘Vedere con i propri occhi’: sguardo del turista e realismo in Innocents Abroad di Mark Twain”, in Orizzonti mediterranei e oltre. Prospettive inglesi e angloamericane, a cura di Leo Marchetti e Carlo Martinez, Milano, LED, 2014, pp. 161-180 (available online);
-BRODHEAD, Richard, “Introduction” to The Marble Faun, Penguin, pp. ix-xxxii;
-MARTINEZ Carlo, "'The thin delights of moonshine and romance' - Romance, Tourism, and Realism in Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun", in Review of International American Studies, RIAS, Vol. 11, Fall–Winter № 2/2018 (available online);
-GOODER, Jean, “Introduction” to Daisy Miller and Other Stories, Oxford University Press, pp. vii-xxix
-FRANCESCATO, Simone and MARTINEZ, Carlo, “Introduction,” RSAJournal, 28 (2017), pp. 9-20 (available online).