| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter One Byatt and the Feminist Tradition in Modern Literature | 第13-17页 |
| ·The Development of the Feminist Tradition in Modern Literature | 第13-16页 |
| ·Byatt’s Feminist Views Reflected in Possession | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two A Reconstructed History of Women in Confinement | 第17-25页 |
| ·The Tradition of Women Being Confined at the Margin of Society | 第17-19页 |
| ·Intellectual Women in Physical and Psychological Confinement | 第19-25页 |
| Chapter Three Women’s Paradoxical Desire for Confinement and Freedom | 第25-34页 |
| ·Voluntary Choice of Physical Confinement for Intellectual Freedom | 第26-31页 |
| ·Inevitable Suffering of Psychological Confinement in Enclosure | 第31-34页 |
| Conclusion | 第34-36页 |
| Notes | 第36-37页 |
| Works Cited | 第37-39页 |
