Retaining a focus on the ‘Neapolitan Renaissance’, this chapter addresses cultural works that relate the symbolic politics of the ‘Neapolitan Renaissance’ to social, cultural and political developments at the national level. These include Italy’s first TV soap opera, Un posto al sole (1996–), and two novels written after the end of the Bassolino administration: Giuseppe Montesano’s Di questa vita menzognera (2003) and Ruggero Capuccio’s Fuoco su Napoli (2010). Strikingly, all three identify in the ‘Neapolitan Renaissance’ a form of utopianism that remains largely unexplored in scholarship addressing Bassolino’s vision for the discursive and material regeneration of Naples. However, where Un posto al sole reproduces the utopianism of the ‘Neapolitan Renaissance’ and nationalizes the new Naples by portraying it as a microcosm of an idealized Italian society, the two novels—reflecting the later date of their publication—provide detailed critique of the cultural and symbolic politics of the Neapolitan Renaissance. I argue that, in so doing, they illustrate the concept of cultural accentedness while also speaking to anxieties surrounding the commodification of culture and its vulnerability to exploitation on the part of organized crime and in the context of Berlusconismo at the national level.