Outward Voyages, Inner Journeys in the Travel Novels of Joseph Conrad, Henry James and Graham Greene

Abstract

This research work, which uses the term “travel novels” to refer to novels that centre on trips, explores the inner, spiritual journey underlying any outward, physical voyage. It examines the reflection of the introspected on the observed in the heterodiegetic travel novels of Joseph Conrad, Henry James and Graham Greene. These three travel novelists are showed to avail themselves of psychogeography, heterotopias and even heteroglossia to enhance outer and inner knowledge.