| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-11页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第11-16页 |
| Introduction | 第16-22页 |
| Chapter One Hipsterism: Regeneration through Sex and Violence | 第22-59页 |
| ·The Evolution of Mailer’s Early Politics from The Naked and The Dead to The Barbary Shore | 第22-31页 |
| ·The Flight from Marxism: The Deer Park | 第31-43页 |
| ·The Violence and the Lust: An American Dream | 第43-59页 |
| Chapter Two Left Conservatism: Seeking to Save the Roots | 第59-115页 |
| ·The Education of Norman Mailer: The Armies of the Night | 第68-81页 |
| ·“I am Longing for a Home”: “Family” Values in The Executioner’s Song | 第81-94页 |
| ·The Imperial America: Imperial Psychology in Ancient Evenings | 第94-103页 |
| ·“God is Struggling with the Devil”: Mailer’s Theology in The Gospel According to the Son | 第103-115页 |
| Chapter Three Anti- Liberalism: Getting Perplexed in a Mass Society | 第115-146页 |
| ·The Return of the Repressed: Tough Guys Don’t Dance | 第119-127页 |
| ·“Democracy is Perishable”: A Warning against Bush Administration in Why Are We at War? | 第127-134页 |
| ·“Devils Are Installed by Now in Every Corner of Human Existence”: The Castle in the Forest | 第134-146页 |
| Conclusion | 第146-155页 |
| Bibliography | 第155-164页 |