| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-19页 |
| 1.1 A Brief Introduction to Anita Brookner and Hotel du Lac | 第12-17页 |
| 1.2 The Structure of the Research | 第17-19页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第19-27页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION:THE SPATIALTHEORY OF HENRI LEFEBVRE | 第27-31页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR THE PHYSICAL SPATIAL SIGNIFICATIONS OF HOTELDU LAC | 第31-48页 |
| 4.1 Implications of the Weather and Scenery | 第31-36页 |
| 4.1.1 Fog suggestive of uncertainty | 第31-34页 |
| 4.1.2 Lake emblematic of lifelessness | 第34-36页 |
| 4.2 Implications of Places | 第36-42页 |
| 4.2.1 Garden functioning as spiritual home | 第37-39页 |
| 4.2.2 Hotel serving as physical prison | 第39-42页 |
| 4.3 Impacts of Spatial Shifts on the Heroine | 第42-48页 |
| 4.3.1 Trauma Left by the loveless Family from Vienna to London | 第42-44页 |
| 4.3.2 Disillusion of marriage for love's sake from London to Switzerland | 第44-48页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE ALIENATION OF WOMEN FROM THE MAINSTREAMSOCIETY IN THE SOCIAL SPACE | 第48-59页 |
| 5.1 Polarized Women at Hotel du Lac | 第48-53页 |
| 5.1.1 Fame and fortune seekers in the vanity fair | 第49-51页 |
| 5.1.2 Freedom pursuers for their own part | 第51-53页 |
| 5.2 Dilemma of the Single Intellectual Women | 第53-59页 |
| 5.2.1 Free life in solitude versus loveless life of family | 第53-55页 |
| 5.2.2 Roots of the alienation | 第55-59页 |
| CHAPTER SIX PURSUIT OF FREEDOM AND SELFHOOD IN THEMENTAL SPACE | 第59-69页 |
| 6.1 Enjoying Freedom in Singlehood and Solitude | 第59-63页 |
| 6.1.1 Sense of insecurity in romance relations | 第59-61页 |
| 6.1.2 Choice of being single and solitary | 第61-63页 |
| 6.2 Self-realization in Writing | 第63-69页 |
| 6.2.1 Achieving selfhood by writing | 第64-66页 |
| 6.2.2 Comforting soul in literary creation | 第66-69页 |
| CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION | 第69-71页 |
| REFERENCES | 第71-74页 |
