| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter Two Romance in Spenser's Time:Shift from Medieval to Renaissance | 第15-23页 |
| Ⅰ. Spenser's Renaissance Predecessors in Romance Writing | 第15-18页 |
| Ⅱ. Discovering, Readership and Scholarship of Romance in English Renaissance Period | 第18-19页 |
| Ⅲ. Faerie Queene as a Romance:Why | 第19-23页 |
| Chapter Three Spenser's Inheritance from the Medieval English Romance in The Faerie Queene | 第23-36页 |
| Ⅰ. National Identity:The Ancient King Arthur | 第23-28页 |
| Ⅱ. Questing Themes—Displaced Youths Regain Nobility | 第28-30页 |
| Ⅲ. Continuation of the Tension and Assimilation of Germanic Culture and Christian Culture | 第30-36页 |
| Chapter Four Spenser's Breakthrough from the Medieval Tradition in The Faerie Queene | 第36-44页 |
| Ⅰ. Spenser's Moving away from the Native Romance | 第36-40页 |
| Ⅱ. Faerie Queene and Nationalism | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第44-47页 |
| Works Cited | 第47-49页 |
