| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| 1.1 Research background | 第10-11页 |
| 1.2 Research questions and significance | 第11-12页 |
| 1.3 Research methodology | 第12页 |
| 1.4 Structure of the thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-23页 |
| 2.1 The Bell Jar | 第14-18页 |
| 2.1.1 A brief introduction to The Bell Jar | 第14-16页 |
| 2.1.2 Previous studies on The Bell Jar in Western countries | 第16-17页 |
| 2.1.3 Previous studies on The Bell Jar in China | 第17-18页 |
| 2.2 Previous studies on medical imagination | 第18-22页 |
| 2.2.1 Previous studies on medical imagination in Western countries | 第19-20页 |
| 2.2.2 Previous studies on medical imagination in China | 第20-22页 |
| 2.3 Summary | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter Three Foucault’s Theory of Power | 第23-29页 |
| 3.1 A brief introduction to Michel Foucault | 第23-24页 |
| 3.2 Connotation of power | 第24-26页 |
| 3.3 Operating mechanism of power | 第26-28页 |
| 3.4 Summary | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter Four Power Structure of the Empire in The Bell Jar | 第29-45页 |
| 4.1 The depressive politics of American empire | 第29-31页 |
| 4.2 Hospital as an executive branch of the empire in The Bell Jar | 第31-37页 |
| 4.2.1 Hospitals | 第31-32页 |
| 4.2.2 The power net of hospitals in The Bell Jar | 第32-34页 |
| 4.2.3 The roles that hospital plays in the empire | 第34-37页 |
| 4.3 Doctor-patient relationship as the order of the empire in The Bell Jar | 第37-44页 |
| 4.3.1 The development of the doctor-patient relationship | 第37-39页 |
| 4.3.2 Superior doctors in the service of the empire | 第39-41页 |
| 4.3.3 Inferior patients of no account in the empire | 第41-43页 |
| 4.3.4 The parent-infant relationship | 第43-44页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第44-45页 |
| Chapter Five Manipulation Power of the Empire in The Bell Jar | 第45-59页 |
| 5.1 Illness as the strategy of the empire in The Bell Jar | 第45-53页 |
| 5.1.1 Illness as metaphor | 第45-46页 |
| 5.1.2 Psychosis | 第46-51页 |
| 5.1.3 Hemorrhage | 第51-53页 |
| 5.2 Medical technology as the tool of the empire | 第53-57页 |
| 5.2.1 Electroconvulsive therapy | 第53-55页 |
| 5.2.2 Anesthetics | 第55-56页 |
| 5.2.3 Diaphragm | 第56-57页 |
| 5.3 Summary | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter Six Destruction of the Empire in The Bell Jar | 第59-68页 |
| 6.1 Aesthetic modernity -- spiritual criticism to the empire | 第59-62页 |
| 6.2 The awakening of women’s subject consciousness -- the query of the empiresocial order | 第62-67页 |
| 6.2.1 Feminism | 第62-65页 |
| 6.2.2 Women’s subject consciousness in The Bell Jar | 第65-67页 |
| 6.3 Summary | 第67-68页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第68-71页 |
| 7.1 Major findings | 第68-69页 |
| 7.2 Implications and limitations of the research | 第69-70页 |
| 7.3 Suggestions for future research | 第70-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-74页 |
| Appendix I | 第74-75页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第75页 |
