| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第10-22页 |
| 1.1 Introduction to Hawthorne and His Achievements | 第10-11页 |
| 1.2 New England Trilogy | 第11页 |
| 1.3 Literature Review at Home and Abroad | 第11-16页 |
| 1.4 Theoretical Perspectives | 第16-19页 |
| 1.5 The Feasibility and Significance of the Thesis | 第19-22页 |
| Chapter Two THE SCARLET LETTER: HAWTHORNE'SREFLECTION ON POSITIVE LIBERTY | 第22-44页 |
| 2.1 Hester on Public Scaffold: Danger of Rousseau's Positive Liberty | 第22-31页 |
| 2.2 Death of Dimmesdale: Loss of Transcendental Positive Liberty | 第31-37页 |
| 2.3 The Scarlet “A”:“A” for Autonomy | 第37-44页 |
| Chapter Three THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE: HAWTHORNE'S REFLECTION ON THE UTILITARIAN FOUNDATION OFLIBERALISM | 第44-68页 |
| 3.1 Hollingsworth and Westervelt: Representatives of Utilitarian Reformers | 第44-51页 |
| 3.2 Hollingsworth's “Edifice” and Westervelt's “New Era”: The Utilitarian Road toSerfdom | 第51-60页 |
| 3.3 Failure of Blithedale: Self-destructive Nature of Empirical Utilitarianism | 第60-68页 |
| Chapter Four THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES:HAWTHORNE'S CONSTRUCTION OF POLITICAL LIBERALISM | 第68-88页 |
| 4.1 The Happy Ending: Hawthorne's Comprehensive Doctrine | 第68-78页 |
| 4.2 “Clouds Overhead”: Constitutional Consensus for the Contingency | 第78-83页 |
| 4.3 “A House of Stone”: Hawthorne's Vision of Overlapping Consensus | 第83-88页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第88-92页 |
| Works Cited | 第92-100页 |
| 附录： 作者在攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第100页 |
