| Chapter Ⅰ. Introduction | 第1-17页 |
| ·Mary Shelley and Frankenstein | 第9-11页 |
| ·Literature review | 第11-14页 |
| ·Thesis statement and research questions | 第14-15页 |
| ·Thesis structure | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ. The Narrative Form of Frankenstein | 第17-28页 |
| ·The English epistolary writing tradition | 第17-21页 |
| ·The tradition of epistolary writing in English literary history | 第17-19页 |
| ·The epistolary novel as women's writing tradition | 第19-21页 |
| ·Frankenstein: the submission to the convention of the epistolary writing | 第21-28页 |
| ·The epistolary narration of Frankenstein | 第21-24页 |
| ·Epistolary narration as frame | 第21-23页 |
| ·Epistolary communications among the characters | 第23-24页 |
| ·Privacy of the epistolary narration in Frankenstein | 第24-28页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ. The Narrative Communicative Structure of Frankenstein | 第28-38页 |
| ·Theory of narrative communication | 第28-29页 |
| ·The narrative communication structure of Frankenstein | 第29-31页 |
| ·Features of the narrative communication structure of Frankenstein and the submission of femininity | 第31-38页 |
| ·The submissive silence of the female addresser at the extra-textual layer | 第32-33页 |
| ·The passivity of the sole narratee at the intra-textual level of the narrative communication | 第33-38页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ. The Textual Voices of the Characters of Frankenstein | 第38-52页 |
| ·Textual voices in direct speech. | 第38-39页 |
| ·Statistics of distribution of direct speeches in the narrative | 第39-42页 |
| ·The submissive silence of the female characters in the narration of the monster | 第42-45页 |
| ·The loss of the female voices in the narration of Victor Frankenstein and the submission and suppression of female | 第45-52页 |
| ·Statistical study of textual voice distribution in Victor Frankenstein's narration | 第45-47页 |
| ·Confinement of the female voice in communication | 第47-48页 |
| ·The futility of the female voice | 第48-50页 |
| ·The deprivation of female voices in the narration of Victor Frankenstein | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ. Unreliable Narration of Male Narrator Victor Frankenstein | 第52-64页 |
| ·Theory of unreliable narration | 第52-54页 |
| ·The unreliable narration of male narrator Victor Frankenstein | 第54-62页 |
| ·The possibility of Frankenstein's being an unreliable narrator | 第54-57页 |
| ·The contradictions of Frankenstein's narration | 第57-62页 |
| ·The subversion of masculinity in Frankenstein | 第62-64页 |
| Chapter Ⅵ. Conclusion | 第64-69页 |
| Bibliography | 第69-71页 |
