| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| English Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| 1. Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life and Her Novels | 第8-9页 |
| 2. The Focus of This Paper | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Sexual Inversion in Gaskell’s Novels | 第11-17页 |
| 1. The Patterns of Sexual Inversion | 第11-14页 |
| ·Normal Range of Sexual Inversion Linked to Sexual Liberalization | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Abnormal Sexual Inversions Implicating Nonconstructive Effects | 第12-14页 |
| 2. The Inversion of Sexual Identity Accompanied by Inverted Gender Vices | 第14-17页 |
| ·Gendered Ethical Tendencies Defining the Basic Sexual Conflict | 第14-15页 |
| ·Displacement of Gender Vices Building the Sexual Conflict | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two The Inversion of Sexual Identity Related to Middle-class Ideology | 第17-26页 |
| 1. The Revision of the Stereotype of Female Constancy by the Broadened Psychological Opposition | 第17-18页 |
| 2. The Sexual Inversions and the Ethical Vices Explained by the Ideological Self-contradiction | 第18-20页 |
| 3. Retaining of Sexual Order | 第20-23页 |
| ·Middle-class Women | 第21-22页 |
| ·Middle-class Men | 第22页 |
| ·Working-class Characters | 第22-23页 |
| 4. Gaskell’s Attitude toward Class Boundaries | 第23-26页 |
| Chapter Three The Possibilities of Violating Energy | 第26-37页 |
| 1. Excessive Sexual Disorders Tied to Threats against Class Boundary | 第26-27页 |
| 2. The Inversions of Sexual Identity as Signs for Disruptive Social Force | 第27-37页 |
| ·Mr. Jenkyns and His Daughter’s Dangerous Social Ambitions | 第29-30页 |
| ·Captain Brown, Mr Holbrook and Peter Jenkyns’Indifference to Social Rank | 第30-32页 |
| ·Institutionalizing Female Misrepresentation | 第32-35页 |
| ·Matty’s Revision of Traditional Feminine Self-sacrifice | 第35-37页 |
| Conclusion | 第37-38页 |
| Bibliography | 第38-39页 |
