| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Abstract | 第11-17页 |
| Introduction | 第17-33页 |
| ·A Critical Survey of English and Chinese Scholarship on McEwan | 第17-23页 |
| ·The Rise of Urban Literature and McEwan’s Urban Narratives | 第23-25页 |
| ·The Definition and Clarification of Key Terms | 第25-28页 |
| ·The City versus the Metropolis | 第25-26页 |
| ·Mimesis and Reflection | 第26-28页 |
| ·The idiosyncrasies of McEwan’s Literary Reflections of London | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Argument and Organization of the Dissertation | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter One The Entropic London in First Love, Last Rites | 第33-66页 |
| ·The Urban Images of the Entropic London | 第37-48页 |
| ·The Canal, the Scrap Yard, and Deserted Factories | 第37-41页 |
| ·The Tunnel | 第41-44页 |
| ·The Basement, the Cellar, and the Prison | 第44-48页 |
| ·The Major Cause of London’s Entropy | 第48-56页 |
| ·The Primitive id | 第48-51页 |
| ·The Dionysian Aspect of Human Psyche | 第51-56页 |
| ·The Major Cause of London’s Depletion of Negative Entropy | 第56-66页 |
| ·The Destitution of Negative Entropy in “Butterflies” | 第58-61页 |
| ·The Want of Negative Entropy in “Conversation with a Cupboard Man” | 第61-66页 |
| Chapter Two The Wasteland of London in The Child in Time | 第66-108页 |
| ·The Physical Wasteland of London | 第69-82页 |
| ·The Cityscape of London | 第69-76页 |
| ·The Country verses the City | 第76-82页 |
| ·The Social Wasteland of London | 第82-96页 |
| ·The Literary Reflection of London and the Thatcher Government | 第82-85页 |
| ·Licensed Begging | 第85-89页 |
| ·The Chasm between the Rich and the Poor | 第89-92页 |
| ·Privatization | 第92-96页 |
| ·The Protagonist’s Spiritual Space and the Cultural Wasteland of London | 第96-108页 |
| ·The Cultural Wasteland of London | 第96-102页 |
| ·Charles’ Spiritual Plight | 第102-108页 |
| Chapter Three The Spectacular London in Saturday | 第108-153页 |
| ·The Spectacularity of Architecture | 第112-126页 |
| ·The Square | 第112-117页 |
| ·Office Buildings | 第117-121页 |
| ·Old People’s Homes | 第121-126页 |
| ·The Spectacularity of commodities | 第126-139页 |
| ·The Carrier of Commodities’ Spectacularity: City Streets | 第128-130页 |
| ·The Function of Commodities’ Spectacularity: Commodity Fetishism | 第130-136页 |
| ·The Manifestation of Commodities’ Spectacularity: Consumer Culture | 第136-139页 |
| ·The Spectacularity of Media | 第139-153页 |
| ·The Television Spectacle and the Sense of Participation | 第140-142页 |
| ·The Television Spectacle and Ideology | 第142-149页 |
| ·The Television Spectacle and the Body | 第149-153页 |
| Conclusion | 第153-157页 |
| Works Cited | 第157-166页 |
