Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Undoing Categories: The British Author Sylvia Townsend Warner 2. Homoerotic Desires 2.1 "The Shirt in Mexico": Gender Disruption and Ambiguous Speech 2.2 The "Curious Quality" of "Bruno 2.3 Seeking Meaning in "The Green Torso" 2.4 Desire and Detachment 3. Cross-Species Relationships 3.1 Knowledge and Love in the Introduction to The Cat's Cradle-Book 3.2 Decentering the Human in "The Traveller from the West and the Traveller from the East" 3.3 Corporeality and Control in "The Wineshop Cat" 3.4 Shifting the Species Line 4. Incestuous Longings 4.1 Secrets and Sibcest in "A Love Match" 4.2 Mothers and Desires in "At a Monkey's Breast" 4.3 Expanded Experiences and Material Objects in "A Spirit Rises" 4.4 Indifference to Conventions 5. Avenues of Escape 5.1 "At the Trafalgar Bakery" and Ex-Centric Spaces 5.2 "But at the Stroke of Midnight" and Ex-Centric Modes of Being 5.3 "An Act of Reparation": An Act of Emancipation 5.4 Eluding Interpellation 6. Vanishing 6.1 Death and Disengagement in "'Boors Carousing'" 6.2 Failure and Success in "A Work of Art" 6.3 Textural Desires in "A Dressmaker" 6.4 Nonbeing 7. Elfin Indifference: Warner's Kingdoms of Elfin 8. Coda Works Cited Primary Literature Secondary Literature