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- Title
"Was it marriage?": Queer Relationships and Early Twentieth-Century Anti-Realism.
- Authors
Nordgren, Todd G.
- Abstract
Lady into Fox: Becoming an Odd Couple of Animals Constituting the most radical example of queer fantasy's ability to overthrow the conventions of marriage, David Garnett's novella I Lady into Fox i (1922) follows the life of a young man and his wife in Victorian England after the wife has turned suddenly into a fox. In his dismay at his wife's transformation, the narrator observes that Mr. Tebrick "could not contain his own tears, but sat down on the ground and sobbed for a great while, but between his sobs kissing her quite as if she had been a woman, and not caring in his grief that he was kissing a fox on the muzzle" (Garnett, I Lady into Fox i , 6). As Kathryn Hume proposes in her influential I Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature i , fantasy effects a "deliberate departure" from "consensus reality", from what is "usually accepted as real and normal."[14] While Garnett embraces a more traditional or apparently conservative prose style and narrative arc in I Lady into Fox i , the novella is invested in modernist innovations in its "deliberate departure" from the structures of literary realism through the jarring introduction of fantastic elements.
- Subjects
MARRIAGE; HAPPINESS; MARRIED women; SAME-sex marriage; QUEER theory; SOCIAL impact; TWENTIETH century; NON-monogamous relationships
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2022, Vol 29, Issue 2, p357
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2022.0012