Caroline Patey is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Milan. She has published full-length volumes on Joyce and Proust, Mannerism and London and Henry James (Londra: Henry James e la capitale del modern; 2004). She has recently co-edited Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean (2006) and the Italian translation of John Soane's Crude Hints Towards a History of my House (2009).