| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One The Realm of Afterlife in Mythological Period | 第11-17页 |
| ·Mythology: The Roots of Fantasy | 第11-12页 |
| ·Mythology | 第11页 |
| ·The Epics | 第11页 |
| ·Roman Mythology | 第11-12页 |
| ·Other Mythology | 第12页 |
| ·The Underworld in Greek Mythology | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Descriptions of the Greek Underworld | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Greek Concept of Afterlife | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter Two The Fantastic Underground Elements in Classics | 第17-26页 |
| ·The Further Development of Fantasy | 第17-18页 |
| ·The fantastic ghosts as literay device in classics | 第18-23页 |
| ·The fantasy world in Shakespear’s plays | 第18-19页 |
| ·The influence of the ghosts on Shakespear’s charactors’psychological portrait | 第19-21页 |
| ·The spiritual conversion of Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge in A Chritmas Carol | 第21-23页 |
| ·The imagined primary physical world underground | 第23-26页 |
| ·The significance of Grendel’s cave in Beowulf | 第23页 |
| ·Milton’s Hell becomes common over Dante’s Hell | 第23-24页 |
| ·The underground city below Laputa | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three The themes of the world underground in fantasy | 第26-50页 |
| ·The fantasy literature as genre | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Kinds of Modern Fantasy | 第27-28页 |
| ·Science fiction as one kind of fantasy | 第28-29页 |
| ·Journey to the world underground in fantasy fiction | 第29-35页 |
| ·Alice’s psychic journey to the world underground | 第29-30页 |
| ·H.G Wells’explorative journey to the world underground | 第30-35页 |
| ·The Time Machine , an explorative science fiction | 第30-33页 |
| ·The social significance of the underground specie in The Time Machine | 第33-35页 |
| ·T he secondary world underground in modern fantasy | 第35-50页 |
| ·The Secondary World Theory | 第35-37页 |
| ·The independent Secondary World underground created by J.R.R Tolkien | 第37-46页 |
| ·Middle Earth | 第37-38页 |
| ·The World Underground in Middle Earth | 第38-45页 |
| ·The independence from the primary world as the features of Middle Earth | 第45-46页 |
| ·The Interdependent Secondary World Underground Created by C.S Lewis | 第46-50页 |
| ·The Secondary World in The Chronicles of Nania | 第46-48页 |
| ·The underland of The Lady of Green Kirtle | 第48-50页 |
| Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-54页 |
| 发表论文和科研情况说明 | 第54-55页 |
