Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-191) and index.

Spiritual ethics of modern pilgrimage -- Initiatory pilgrimage : the female pilgrim comes of age in Rose Macaulay's The towers of Trebizond, E.M. Forster's A room with a view and Virginia Woolf's The voyage out -- Acquisitive pilgrimage : renouncing the quest in Henry James's The American and the ambassadors and E.M. Forster's Where angels fear to tread and A passage to India -- Wandering pilgrimage : mobile expatriatism in Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the night, and Claude Mckay's Banjo -- Imaginative pilgrimage : home and exile in Jean Rhys's Voyage in the dark, Evelyn Waugh's A handful of dust, Joyce Cary's To be a pilgrim, and Virginia Woolf's The years.