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Contents: Caroline Patey/Giovanni Cianci: Introduction - Ian Duncan: Darwin's Voyage: Circumnavigation, World History and the Map of Mankind - J.B. Bullen: The Imaginative Geography of Hardy's The Return of the Native - Luisa Villa: 'A cruel double-magic': Modern Travel and its Complexities in Rudyard Kipling's Egypt of the Magicians - Giovanni Cianci: Open Space versus Closed Space: The Crisis of Domesticity in Literary and Visual Early Modernism - Max Saunders: Ford Madox Ford and Nomadic Modernism - Daniela Caselli: Geographies of Loss in Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus - Laura Pelaschiar: 'In all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored': Politics and Poetics of Space in Joyce's Ulysses - Sara Sullam: Berlin Transfer: Christopher Isherwood's Anglo-German Poetics - Giuseppina Restivo: The 'Ulyssean' and the 'Kolossalisch': Joyce and de Chirico in Beckett's Endgame - David Bradshaw: 'Great Avenues of Civilization': The Victoria Embankment and Piccadilly Circus Underground Station in the Novels of Virginia Woolf and Chelsea Embankment in Howards End - Caroline Patey: Channelling Words: Modernist Imagination and the Coast of South-East England - Stan Smith: Island Distractions: W.H. Auden's Ethical Topographies - Mario Maffi: An Inner Elsewhere: New Orleans's Fluid Time-Space - Cinzia Schiavini: The Borders of Empire: Diasporic Spaces and the Transfrontera in Rubén Martínez's The Other Side and Crossing Over - Werner Sollors: Nomadic Geographies, or, 'The peoples of the world are rapidly being scrambled!'.

Giovanni Cianci is Professor of English Literature at the State University of Milan. He is the author of La Scuola di Cambridge and La Fortuna di Joyce in Italia. His most recent books are the co-edited volumes Ruskin and Modernism (2001) and T.S. Eliot and the Concept of Tradition (2007).
Caroline Patey is Associate Professor of English Literature at the State University of Milan. Her recent books include Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean (2006), Tra le lingue, tra i linguaggi: Cent'anni di Samuel Beckett (2007) and The Exhibit in the Text: The Museological Practices of Literature, co-edited with Laura Scuriatti (Peter Lang, 2009).
Sara Sullam studied in Milan, Berlin and Berkeley and holds a degree in English and German literature. She wrote her MA thesis on the role of poetry in James Joyce's work and her PhD dissertation on Virginia Woolf. She has published articles on Joyce and William Carlos Williams.