Автор: Francesca Orestano Marialuisa Bignami

Marialuisa Bignami, Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, is the author of three volumes, respectively on the rise of English Journalism, on Daniel Defoe”s narratives and on English literary utopias. She is also the author of numerous essays on the prose and poetry of John Milton and on narrative topics and their modern development: in particular on Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, James Hogg, George Eliot, Samuel Butler, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Iris Murdoch.Francesca Orestano, Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, works on the connections between literature and aesthetics; the picturesque and visual culture; modernism; children”s literature; and landscape gardening. Her recent publications include essays on Dickens, Ruskin, and Virginia Woolf. She is editor of Strange Sisters: Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century (2009) and Dickens and Italy, with Michael Hollington (2010).Alessandro Vescovi teaches English Literature at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. His field of interest includes Dickens and the Indian novel in English. He has authored a book on short story theory (Dal focolare allo scrittoio, 1999) and coedited two volumes on Dickens and the Victorians (Dickens the Craft of Fiction, 2000; Victorians and Italy, 2009). He has published articles on R. K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh, on whom he is currently completing a monograph.