Queer Narrative Ecology in Margaret Fuller's "The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain" and Virginia Woolf's "Kew Gardens"

Abstract

Historically, scholars have not linked Margaret Fuller and Virginia Woolf. This essay acts as a transatlantic feminist recovery project, delineating Woolf's knowledge of Fuller, and how their experimental works subvert classical and romantic-chivalric literary precedents which they deem masculinist and foreclosing of possibility.