Animal Companions in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s More-than-Marxist World

Representations of animals in Warner’s work anticipate twenty-first-century materialist feminism. In addressing animal exploitation and cross-species collaboration, Warner revises Marxist formulations of socioeconomic structures that include both human and more-than-human life. For her, animal agency parallels strategies of colonized peoples, as it must be exerted within alien domains.