| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One:John Fowles and Detective Fiction | 第12-23页 |
| ·John Fowles and His Fictional Works | 第12-14页 |
| ·A Maggot as a Detective Story | 第14-23页 |
| ·The Formulaic Writing Mode of Detective Fiction | 第14-18页 |
| ·A Maggot in the Form of a Detective Story | 第18-20页 |
| ·A Maggot:A Detective Story Following the Theme of Quest | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter Two:A Maggot as a Metaphysical Detective Fiction | 第23-35页 |
| ·What is Metaphysical Detective Fiction? | 第23-26页 |
| ·A Brief History of Metaphysical Detective Fiction | 第23-24页 |
| ·Characteristics of Metaphysical Detective Fiction | 第24-26页 |
| ·A Maggot as a Metaphysical Detective Story | 第26-35页 |
| ·The Missing-Person Type | 第26-29页 |
| ·Fowles's Contributions to the Subgenre | 第29-35页 |
| Chapter Three:Existentialism Embodied in A Maggot | 第35-51页 |
| ·John Fowles and Existentialism | 第35-40页 |
| ·Existential Freedom | 第35-37页 |
| ·John Fowles's Existential Notions | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Theme of Existential Freedom in A Maggot | 第40-51页 |
| ·Grim Social Environment and Marginal People | 第40-42页 |
| ·Bartholomew's Anxiety for Freedom,Free Choices and Actions | 第42-45页 |
| ·Rebecca's Anxiety for Freedom,Free Choices and Actions | 第45-47页 |
| ·Education:The Catalytic Agent of Rebecca's Change | 第47-51页 |
| Chapter Four:Feminism Embodied in A Maggot | 第51-64页 |
| ·The Source of John Fowles's Feminist Notions in A Maggot | 第51-55页 |
| ·Virginia Woolf's Androgynous Ideas | 第52-54页 |
| ·Androgynous Ideas in the Field of Religion | 第54-55页 |
| ·Fowles's Feminist Notions in A Maggot | 第55-64页 |
| ·Bartholomew:An Imperfect Androgynous Figure | 第55-59页 |
| ·Rebecca:A Spokeswoman of Fowles's Feminist Notions | 第59-62页 |
| ·The Significance of Fowles's Feminist Notions in the Novel | 第62-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-65页 |
| Notes | 第65-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-71页 |
| 附录 攻读学位期间发表的论文 | 第71页 |
