| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| English Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| 1. Magaret Drabble and Her Works | 第11-12页 |
| 2. Reviews of Margaret Drabble and Her Novels | 第12-15页 |
| 3. Is Drabble Really “at the End of a Dying Tradition”? | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter One F. R. Leavis and “The Great Tradition” | 第16-22页 |
| 1. Margaret Drabble, F. R. Leavis and “The Great Tradition” | 第16页 |
| 2. The Necessity of “The Great Tradition” | 第16-18页 |
| 3. The Content of “The Great Tradition” | 第18-20页 |
| ·The Emphasis on Life | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Emphasis on the Complexity of Moral Meaning | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Subtle Use of the Living Language | 第20页 |
| 4. The Significance and Limitation of “The Great Tradition” | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two Margaret Drabble: Writing in Leavis’s “The Great Tradition” | 第22-27页 |
| 1. Drabble’s Realistic Trend | 第22-24页 |
| 2. Drabble’s Moral Concern in Novel Writing | 第24-25页 |
| 3. Drabble’s Subtle Use of Living Language | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Three Margaret Dabble, Writing in Modernism and Postmodernism | 第27-38页 |
| 1. The Modernist and Postmodernist Trends in Literary Writing | 第27-29页 |
| 2. A Research on Margaret Drabble’s Feminist Identity | 第29-34页 |
| ·“Feminine Writing”in Drabble’s Novels | 第29-33页 |
| ·A Deviation from Male-Centered Morality | 第33-34页 |
| 3. A Deviation in Form—Margaret Drabble’s Practice in Experimental Novel Writing | 第34-38页 |
| ·The Experimental Novels and Doris Lessing’s “The Golden Notebook” | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Split Narrative in Drabble’s The Waterfall | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Open Ending in The Waterfall | 第36-38页 |
| Conclusion | 第38-41页 |
| Notes | 第41-42页 |
| Bibliography | 第42-45页 |
