Prof. Francesca Orestano
Francesca Orestano, Professor of English Literature at the University of Milan, is the author of books on John Neal and the American Renaissance (Dal Neoclassico al Classico); on Revd. William Gilpin and landscape aesthetics (Paesaggio e finzione); on the picturesque, visual culture, and XIX century literature (La parola e lo sguardo). She has edited with M. Hollington Dickens and Italy; with N. Lennartz New Bearings in Dickens Criticism; has written on Dickens and American landscape, Dickens and Virginia Woolf, and the reception of Dickens in Italy. She works on the connection between Victorian literature, taste and science; on John Ruskin; on literary Impressionism. With Michael Vickers she has edited Not Just Porridge: English Literati at Table (2017) – a gastronomic history of English literature. Her essay on Dickens’s Little Dorrit is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens.