| Acknowledgements | 第3-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-20页 |
| Chapter One Durrell’s City Experience and City Complex | 第20-34页 |
| 1.1 Representatives of City Writing in British Literature | 第21-26页 |
| 1.2 Durrell’s City Experience | 第26-30页 |
| 1.3 Durrell’s City Complex | 第30-34页 |
| Chapter Two Durrell’s Alexandria in The Alexandria Quartet | 第34-60页 |
| 2.1 City with History | 第35-44页 |
| 2.1.1 Alexandria as an Anciently-Civilized City | 第37-40页 |
| 2.1.2 Alexandria as a Newly-Colonized City | 第40-44页 |
| 2.2 City of Desire | 第44-51页 |
| 2.2.1 Alexandria as a Sensuous City | 第45-48页 |
| 2.2.2 Alexandria as a Conspiratory City | 第48-51页 |
| 2.3 City as Heterotopia | 第51-60页 |
| 2.3.1 Alexandria as a Multi-cultural City | 第53-56页 |
| 2.3.2 Alexandria as a Mystical City | 第56-60页 |
| Chapter Three City Writing Strategies in The Alexandria Quartet | 第60-76页 |
| 3.1 Multi-layered Palimpsest | 第60-67页 |
| 3.2 Space-Time-Memory Continuum | 第67-70页 |
| 3.3 Poetic Landscape-Tones | 第70-76页 |
| Conclusion | 第76-80页 |
| Bibliography | 第80-86页 |
