| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-19页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第11-16页 |
| ·Origin of the study and objectives | 第16-19页 |
| Chapter Two the Formation of George Eliot's Meliorism | 第19-31页 |
| ·Introduction of Social Background of Victorian Period | 第21-25页 |
| ·The Scientific and Philosophical Influences on George Eliot's Meliorism | 第25-31页 |
| ·Impact of Darwin's Evolutionary Theory | 第25-27页 |
| ·Comte's Positivism and Feuerbach's Humanistic Religion | 第27-31页 |
| Chapter Three George Eliot's Meliorism in Her Idea of Social Development | 第31-38页 |
| ·Interaction between part and whole in Middlemarch | 第31-34页 |
| ·Hidden Meaning of Middlemarch ---Gradual Development | 第34-38页 |
| Chapter Four George Eliot's Meliorism in Her View of Morality and Marriage | 第38-49页 |
| ·Morality—Power for Continuance and Transformation of Society | 第39-45页 |
| ·Love—Transformations of Ladislaw and Fred | 第40-42页 |
| ·Sympathy—Lydgate's Rebirth | 第42-45页 |
| ·Marital Relationship—Miniature of Society | 第45-49页 |
| ·Happy Union—Mary and Fred | 第46-47页 |
| ·Dorothea's Regress to Traditional Female Role | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第49-51页 |
| Works Cited | 第51-54页 |
| Publications | 第54页 |
