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, capp. 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”;
- HEMINGWAY, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms (1929), Penguin 2004;
- WILLIAMS, William Carlos, A Voyage to Pagany (1928), pp. 85-135; 259-267;
- MARTIN, Valerie, Italian Fever, Vintage Books, NY: 2000.

CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- CULLER, Jonathan, "Semiotics of Tourism" (1981-1990, disponibile su internet);
- 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);
- BRODHEAD, Richard, “Introduction” to The Marble Faun, Penguin, pp. ixxxxii;
- FRANCESCATO, Simone and MARTINEZ, Carlo, “Introduction, ”RSAJournal, 28 (2017), pp. 9-20 (disponibile su internet);
- 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 (disponibile su internet);
- Bryce Conrad, "William Carlos Williams and Europe: The Trans-Atlantic Construction of America", in William Carlos Williams Review , Spring 1992, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 1992), pp. 1-9.