| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-19页 |
| 1.1 Introduction to Braddon and Lady Audley's Secret | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第14-16页 |
| 1.3 Related Theories | 第16-17页 |
| 1.4 Thesis Statement,Significance and Structure | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter 2 Ambivalence in Characters and Women Writing | 第19-41页 |
| 2.1 Women's Double Images both as Conformist and Rebel | 第19-27页 |
| 2.1.1 Conformity to Patriarchal Expectation | 第19-24页 |
| 2.1.2 Rebellion against Patriarchal Suppression | 第24-27页 |
| 2.2 Men's Dual Attitudes toward Women | 第27-34页 |
| 2.2.1 Defender of the Patriarchal Order | 第28-31页 |
| 2.2.2 Understanding and Sympathy with the Plight of Woman | 第31-34页 |
| 2.3 Women Writer's Duality in Victorian Culture | 第34-41页 |
| 2.3.1 Feminist Aesthetics in Women Writing | 第34-38页 |
| 2.3.2 Patriarchal Ideology Conserved in Women Writing | 第38-41页 |
| Chapter 3 Women's Living Condition and the Victorian Culture | 第41-57页 |
| 3.1 Women's Status in Family | 第41-45页 |
| 3.1.1 Sexual Object | 第42-43页 |
| 3.1.2 Servant in Family | 第43-45页 |
| 3.2 Women's Financial and Educational Situation | 第45-50页 |
| 3.2.1 Economic Dependence and Insufficient Financial Incomings | 第46-48页 |
| 3.2.2 Limited Education | 第48-50页 |
| 3.3 Social Laws and Conventions against Women | 第50-57页 |
| 3.3.1 Double Standards of Social Laws | 第51-53页 |
| 3.3.2 Double Moral Standards | 第53-57页 |
| Chapter 4 Women's Madness and its Cultural Critique | 第57-71页 |
| 4.1 The Definition of Women's Madness in Victorian Period | 第57-62页 |
| 4.2 Living Burial of the "Mad" Women in Victorian Period | 第62-65页 |
| 4.3 "Mad" Women as the Other | 第65-67页 |
| 4.4 Women's Madness both as the Subversion and Product of Patriarchal Oppression | 第67-71页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第71-73页 |
| Bibliography | 第73-77页 |
| Papers Published During the Study for M.A. Degree | 第77页 |
