Elisabetta Abignente is Researcher in Comparative Literatures at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She is the author of three books and one edited volume in Italian.Laura Di Fiore is Associate Professor in History of Political Institutions at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She is author of three books in Italian, including Gli Invisibili. Polizia politica e agenti segreti nell’Ottocento borbonico (2018).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The circuit of the secret in reality and fiction, Elisabetta Abignente and Laura Di FiorePart 1 Key aspects1 Political spies in nineteenth-century Europe: A summary and overview, Robert Justin Goldstein2 Cover stories? Bibliographical itineraries into spy fiction studies (1969–2019), Francesco CasalesPart 2 Transnational networks3 Spies, secret agents and confidants: For an underground history of the Carlist Wars, Alexandre Dupont4 Policing political dissidence in Mediterranean port-cities during the long Age of Revolutions (1815–71), Christos Aliprantis5 The Dreyfus Affair and the genesis of the British spy story, 1894–1900 83, Alessandra CrottiPart 3 Secret, power and geopolitics at Europe’s borders6 Imagined communities and geostrategic knowledge in The Riddle of the Sands, Riccardo Capoferro7 Stories of Italian spies and special agents in late-nineteenth-century Egypt: The international struggle against anarchism in a colonial territory, Costantino PaonessaPart 4 Double identities, dissimulation and disguise8 The Mouchard in panoramic literature, Michela Lo Feudo9 False names, multiple nationalities: Spying in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean area, Laura Di Fiore10 Double identity and spy story topoi in The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Secret Agent, Elisabetta AbignenteIndex

Elisabetta Abignente is Researcher in Comparative Literatures at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She is the author of three books and one edited volume in Italian.Laura Di Fiore is Associate Professor in History of Political Institutions at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She is author of three books in Italian, including Gli Invisibili. Polizia politica e agenti segreti nell’Ottocento borbonico (2018).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The circuit of the secret in reality and fiction, Elisabetta Abignente and Laura Di FiorePart 1 Key aspects1 Political spies in nineteenth-century Europe: A summary and overview, Robert Justin Goldstein2 Cover stories? Bibliographical itineraries into spy fiction studies (1969–2019), Francesco CasalesPart 2 Transnational networks3 Spies, secret agents and confidants: For an underground history of the Carlist Wars, Alexandre Dupont4 Policing political dissidence in Mediterranean port-cities during the long Age of Revolutions (1815–71), Christos Aliprantis5 The Dreyfus Affair and the genesis of the British spy story, 1894–1900 83, Alessandra CrottiPart 3 Secret, power and geopolitics at Europe’s borders6 Imagined communities and geostrategic knowledge in The Riddle of the Sands, Riccardo Capoferro7 Stories of Italian spies and special agents in late-nineteenth-century Egypt: The international struggle against anarchism in a colonial territory, Costantino PaonessaPart 4 Double identities, dissimulation and disguise8 The Mouchard in panoramic literature, Michela Lo Feudo9 False names, multiple nationalities: Spying in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean area, Laura Di Fiore10 Double identity and spy story topoi in The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Secret Agent, Elisabetta AbignenteIndex

Elisabetta Abignente is Researcher in Comparative Literatures at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She is the author of three books and one edited volume in Italian.Laura Di Fiore is Associate Professor in History of Political Institutions at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She is author of three books in Italian, including Gli Invisibili. Polizia politica e agenti segreti nell’Ottocento borbonico (2018).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The circuit of the secret in reality and fiction, Elisabetta Abignente and Laura Di FiorePart 1 Key aspects1 Political spies in nineteenth-century Europe: A summary and overview, Robert Justin Goldstein2 Cover stories? Bibliographical itineraries into spy fiction studies (1969–2019), Francesco CasalesPart 2 Transnational networks3 Spies, secret agents and confidants: For an underground history of the Carlist Wars, Alexandre Dupont4 Policing political dissidence in Mediterranean port-cities during the long Age of Revolutions (1815–71), Christos Aliprantis5 The Dreyfus Affair and the genesis of the British spy story, 1894–1900 83, Alessandra CrottiPart 3 Secret, power and geopolitics at Europe’s borders6 Imagined communities and geostrategic knowledge in The Riddle of the Sands, Riccardo Capoferro7 Stories of Italian spies and special agents in late-nineteenth-century Egypt: The international struggle against anarchism in a colonial territory, Costantino PaonessaPart 4 Double identities, dissimulation and disguise8 The Mouchard in panoramic literature, Michela Lo Feudo9 False names, multiple nationalities: Spying in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean area, Laura Di Fiore10 Double identity and spy story topoi in The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Secret Agent, Elisabetta AbignenteIndex