Dorothy Richardson's novel cycle Pilgrimage, completed in 1938, continues to be marginalized despite the fact that in the past decade several monographs and many articles addressing the issues of gender, genre and modernism have been published. Her work has been recuperated from oblivion primarily as a voice of feminine modernism, but the philosophical underpinnings are still overlooked. Mapping this early modernist text against our postmodern interest in real and imagined geographies, Bronfen addresses the question of how identity is formed as a result of corporeal and cultural positioning. The first part of the book explores concrete spaces and how these are psychically encoded; the second part analyzes Richardson's use of spatial metaphor; and the third part presents Pilgrimage itself as a narrative tapestry.