| 中文摘要 | 第1-3页 |
| Abstract | 第3-4页 |
| 中文文摘 | 第4-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One The Thorn Birds and New Historicism | 第12-22页 |
| ·The Thorn Birds and Literary Review | 第12-15页 |
| ·Coleen McCullough and Her Involvement in The Thorn Birds | 第15-18页 |
| ·The Theoretical Framework of New Historicism | 第18-22页 |
| Chapter two The first generation of Cleary women:Suppressed by theOverwhelming Patriarchal Society | 第22-36页 |
| ·The Overwhelming Patriarchal Society in Early Australian Colony | 第22-28页 |
| ·The First Group of Immigrants:Convicts | 第22-25页 |
| ·The Gold Rush in New South Welsh in 1850s | 第25-28页 |
| ·Fiona:A perfect Woman in Man's Society | 第28-31页 |
| ·Mary Carson:An aggressive Woman fighting Patriarchy | 第31-36页 |
| Chapter there The second generation of Cleary women:Meggie's Hard JourneyInfluenced by Catholicism,Bush Culture and Mateship | 第36-58页 |
| ·The Dominant Catholicism on the Early Australian Colony | 第36-41页 |
| ·The Catholic Doctrines | 第37-39页 |
| ·Catholic Churc in Australia | 第39-41页 |
| ·Bush Culture and Mateship | 第41-44页 |
| ·Bush Culture | 第41-42页 |
| ·Mateship | 第42-44页 |
| ·Meggie:A Miserable but Rebellious Woman | 第44-58页 |
| ·Meggie's Suppressed Childhood | 第45-47页 |
| ·Meggie's First Love:the Victim of Catholicism | 第47-49页 |
| ·Meggie's Marriage:Destroyed by Bush Culture and Mateship | 第49-52页 |
| ·Meggie's Rebellion:the First Step to Be Independent | 第52-58页 |
| Chapter four The third generation of Cleary women:Justine's dreamful lifeAchieved in the New Era | 第58-70页 |
| ·Nationalization and Internationalization | 第58-61页 |
| ·Nationalization:The Forming ofAustralian Identity | 第58-59页 |
| ·Internationalization:The Opportunity to See the World | 第59-61页 |
| ·Justine:An Independent Modern Woman | 第61-70页 |
| ·Justine's Successful career--as an actress | 第61-63页 |
| ·Justine's Happy Marriage--as an independent woman | 第63-70页 |
| Conclusion | 第70-74页 |
| References | 第74-76页 |
| 攻读学位期间承担的科研任务与主要成果 | 第76-78页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第78-80页 |
| 个人简历 | 第80-81页 |
