ABSTRACT
As a literary form, the novel is inherently geographical. The world of the novel is made up of locations and settings, arenas and boundaries, perspectives and horizons. Various places and spaces are occupied or envisaged by the novel’s characters, by the narrator and by audiences as they read. Any one novel may present a field of different, sometimes competing, forms of geographical knowledge and experience, from a sensuous awareness of place to an educated idea of region and nation. These various geographies are co-ordinated by various kinds of temporal knowledge and experience, from circumscribed routines to linear notions of progress or transformation (Kestner, 1978; Tuan, 1978; Barrell, 1982; Said, 1989).
