| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-11页 |
| 摘要 | 第12-18页 |
| Introduction | 第18-46页 |
| Chapter 1 The Core of the Father's Role | 第46-87页 |
| 1.1 Domesticity:The Empire of the Father | 第48-70页 |
| 1.2 Fathers Outside Home:The Efforts of the Provider | 第70-81页 |
| 1.3 Caleb Garth:The Most Intimate Father | 第81-87页 |
| Chapter 2 Distant,Absent,and Tyrannical Fathers:The Disjointed World of George Eliot | 第87-125页 |
| 2.1 Futile and Barren Presence:Thais Bede,Squire Cass,and Mr.Transome's Departed Existence | 第89-98页 |
| 2.2 The Independent and Self-Determining World of Middlemarch | 第98-110页 |
| 2.3 Children's Resistance and Embracement:Mirah Lapidoth,Maggie Tulliver,and Adam Bede | 第110-125页 |
| Chapter 3 The Sacred Ties:Adoptive versus Biological Fathers | 第125-157页 |
| 3.1 Fathering,Fostering and Class Anxiety | 第128-135页 |
| 3.2 Fatherhood,Adoption and Inheritance | 第135-139页 |
| 3.3 Search for the Identity/Father | 第139-157页 |
| Conclusion | 第157-163页 |
| Bibliography | 第163-180页 |
