| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| 0.1 Sinclair Lewis and His Literary Career | 第9-11页 |
| 0.2 Researches on It Can't Happen Here | 第11-13页 |
| 0.3 The structure of the thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter One The Monitoring Mechanism and Hierarchical Individuals | 第15-28页 |
| 1.1 Panopticon and the Monitoring Mechanism | 第15-16页 |
| 1.2 A Society with Ubiquitous Monitoring under Warden Windrip | 第16-22页 |
| 1.3 Hierarchical Individuals:the Supervising or the Supervised | 第22-28页 |
| Chapter Two The Mechanism of Discipline and Stratified Individuals | 第28-42页 |
| 2.1 Power/Knowledge and the Mechanism of Disciplining | 第28-29页 |
| 2.2 The Disciplinary Power of Windrip's Regime | 第29-38页 |
| 2.3 Stratified Individuals:Disciplining or Being Disciplined | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Three The Mechanism of Punishing and the Persecuted Intellectuals | 第42-54页 |
| 3.1 The Mechanism of Punishing | 第42-43页 |
| 3.2 The Punishment of Windrip's Regime | 第43-46页 |
| 3.3 The Life of Doremus and Other Persecuted Intellectuals | 第46-54页 |
| Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| Works Cited | 第56-59页 |
