| Acknowledgements | 第1-9页 |
| Chinese Synopsis | 第9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-17页 |
| Chapter One Sterne's Intellectual Inheritance from Locke | 第17-25页 |
| 1 An Unsteady Bridge in Epistemology: Rationalism and Empiricism | 第17-21页 |
| 2 The Imperfection of Language | 第21-25页 |
| Chapter Two Tristram Shandy: the Ontology of the Novel | 第25-42页 |
| 1 The Designed Chaos in Tristram Shandy | 第25-29页 |
| 2 The Narrator's Consciousness of Time in Tristram Shandy | 第29-42页 |
| 1 ) The Time-shift Techniques in Tristram Shandy | 第31-36页 |
| 2 ) The Polyphonic Phenomena in Tristram Shandy | 第36-42页 |
| Chapter Three The Representation of History in Tristram Shandy | 第42-50页 |
| 1 The Perspectives on History: Traditional and Modern | 第43-44页 |
| 2 The Subjectivity of History | 第44-50页 |
| Conclusion | 第50-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-55页 |
