| 中文摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One The Essence of Darwinism and Its Influence on Hardy and His Major Novels | 第12-22页 |
| ·Darwin, Darwinism and Social Darwinism | 第12-16页 |
| ·Darwin and his thinking of biological evolution | 第12-14页 |
| ·Darwinism and Social Darwinism | 第14-16页 |
| ·The influence of Darwinism on Hardy reflected in his major works | 第16-22页 |
| Chapter Two The Disappearance of God in Tess of the d'Urbervilles | 第22-30页 |
| ·Thomas Hardy and his Christian belief | 第22-23页 |
| ·The three stages of Hardy's belief in Christian God in Tess | 第23-30页 |
| ·puzzlement | 第23-25页 |
| ·disappointment | 第25-26页 |
| ·desperation | 第26-30页 |
| Chapter Three The Principle of Natural Selection and the Inevitability of Tess's Tragedy | 第30-64页 |
| ·The principle of adaptation | 第30-37页 |
| ·The principle of struggling for existence | 第37-57页 |
| ·The struggle of nature vs society | 第38-44页 |
| ·The individual struggle of Tess vs Angel and Alec | 第44-50页 |
| ·The class struggle | 第50-57页 |
| ·The effects of heredity on the inevitability of Tess's tragedy | 第57-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-66页 |
| Works Consulted | 第66-69页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第69-70页 |
