Abstract:Rebecca West’s obscure, out-of-print novel Harriet Hume (1929) illustrates the correspondences between high modernism and the spiritual knowledges supposedly dispelled by discourses of Enlightenment modernity. West’s interest in telepathy, as a phenomenon that affirms the permeability of psychic boundaries and the entangled nature of consciousness, not only illustrates the persistence of spiritualism within the cultural imaginary of modernism but also the affinities between these spiritual knowledges and modernist literary form. By connecting West’s feminist modernist practices to turn-of-the century investigations of telepathy offered by psychical researcher F. W. H. Myers, I argue that telepathy is as close as possible to a metaphor for West’s writing, insofar as it models a receptivity to other minds that is central to the aesthetic and feminist imperatives of her fiction. Using telepathy as a lens with which to perform a feminist reading of the capabilities of the modernist novel, this essay illustrates how telepathy’s utopian vision of consciousness offers a feminist framework for imagining modes of relation that are intersubjective and non-hierarchical.

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“我发现我的思想与你的相遇”：丽贝卡·韦斯特的心灵感应现代主义

摘要：丽贝卡·韦斯特 (Rebecca West) 晦涩难懂的绝版小说哈丽特·休谟 (Harriet Hume, 1929) 说明了高度现代主义与据称被启蒙现代性话语驱散的精神知识之间的对应关系。韦斯特对心灵感应的兴趣，作为一种确认精神边界的渗透性和意识纠缠性质的现象，不仅说明了现代主义文化想象中唯灵论的坚持，而且说明了这些精神知识与现代主义文学形式之间的亲和力。通过将韦斯特的女权主义现代主义实践与心理研究员 FWH Myers 提供的世纪之交的心灵感应研究联系起来，我认为心灵感应尽可能接近韦斯特写作的隐喻，就其对他人思想的接受程度而言，这是她小说的美学和女权主义要求的核心。使用心灵感应作为对现代主义小说能力进行女权主义阅读的镜头，这篇文章说明了心灵感应的乌托邦意识愿景如何为想象主体间和非等级关系模式提供了一个女权主义框架。