| Acknowledgements | 第6-8页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第12-16页 |
| Introduction Americanness:Retrospection and Introspection | 第18-64页 |
| 1. Defining Americanness | 第18-20页 |
| 2. Problematic Americanness and the Post-Cold War Reflections | 第20-40页 |
| 3. The Post-Cold War Family Saga:A Dialogical Reading of Americanness | 第40-48页 |
| 4. Literature Review | 第48-61页 |
| 5. Organization of this Dissertation | 第61-64页 |
| Chapter 1 God-forsaken or God-obsessed: The Saga of American Faith in JohnUpdike's In the Beauty of the Lilies | 第64-94页 |
| 1.1 Updike and the American faith | 第64-68页 |
| 1.2 From Faith in God to Faith in Nation | 第68-81页 |
| 1.3 Mass Religion or Mass Cult | 第81-94页 |
| Chapter 2 The Jewish-American Adam:Innocence, Experience andAmericanness in Philip Roth's American Pastoral | 第94-125页 |
| 2.1 Ph-lip Roth's Americanness | 第94-100页 |
| 2.2 A Jewish-American Adam | 第100-108页 |
| 2.3 From Innocence to Experience | 第108-113页 |
| 2.4 After Paradise Lost | 第113-125页 |
| Chapter 3 Disruption and Correction:The Crisis of American Self-cognition inJonathan Franzen's The Corrections | 第125-158页 |
| 3.1 Jonathan Franzen and Americanness | 第125-128页 |
| 3.2 Protestant and Regionalist Self-cognition | 第128-136页 |
| 3.3 Narcissist,Liberal and Disruptive Self-Cognition | 第136-153页 |
| 3.4 Corrective Self-cognition | 第153-158页 |
| Chapter 4 American Promise and 9/11: The Triumphalist Americanness inJeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex | 第158-188页 |
| 4.1 Hybrid Narrative and Historiographical Metafiction | 第159-163页 |
| 4.2 Coercive Americanness in Melting Pot Politics | 第163-170页 |
| 4.3 The American Dream and the problematic American Triumphalism | 第170-178页 |
| 4.4 Hybrid Americanness and Post-9/11 reflection | 第178-188页 |
| Conclusion | 第188-195页 |
| Bibliography | 第195-207页 |
