ABSTRACT This article examines Ruth, the cerebral protagonist of Olive Moore’s novel Spleen, and how her processes of rumination affect the ways she interacts with modern gendered ideologies. These interactions, the article argues, suggest not only a ferocious feminism, but also a kind of homoeroticism or lesbianism extant in the protagonist. In order to make these arguments, the study first analyzes the title of the book, Spleen, mapping out the term’s use in medicine and how it is associated with the gendered neurological problem of hysteria approaching the early twentieth century. This association, placed up against melancholy (ennui) from Baudelaire, is then utilized to explore Ruth’s ardent intellectual and feminist consciousness by which she refuses modern conventional reproductions of womanhood and maternity. Her refusal leads to the biblical story of Ruth, through which the article then assesses her defiance of heteronormativity via her rejection of heterosexuality and her penchant towards women. Together, these foci create an image of Ruth that suggests not just an extreme feminist character battling a modern melancholy, but further magnify her rejection of the maternal, and her subtler lesbian leanings.

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非女性化的智力：奥利·摩尔的脾脏中的忧郁，产妇和女同性恋

摘要本文探讨了橄榄摩尔小说《脾脏》的大脑主角露丝，以及她的反省过程如何影响她与现代性别意识形态互动的方式。文章认为，这些相互作用不仅暗示了凶猛的女权主义，而且还暗示了主角中存在的一种同性恋或女同性恋主义。为了提出这些论据，研究首先分析了《脾脏》一书的标题，列出了该词在医学中的用法以及它与二十世纪初出现的歇斯底里的性别神经系统疾病的关系。该协会与鲍德莱尔（Baudelaire）的忧郁症（ennui）背道而驰，然后被用来探索露丝（Ruth）的强烈的知识分子和女权意识，因为她拒绝了现代传统的女性和孕妇生殖方式。她的拒绝导致了露丝的圣经故事，通过这篇文章，她通过拒绝异性恋和对女性的偏爱评估了她对异性的反感。这些焦点共同创造了露丝的形象，不仅暗示了与现代忧郁作斗争的极端女权人物，而且进一步放大了她对母体的拒绝以及对女同性恋的偏爱。