| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| 1.Virginia Woolf and To the Lighthouse | 第9-11页 |
| 2. Woolf’s Aesthetic Belief and Its Embodiment in To the Lighthouse | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter One The Aesthetic Theme—The Artistic Concern | 第14-30页 |
| ·The Intellectual Influence | 第14-19页 |
| ·Aesthetic Movement | 第14-16页 |
| ·Bloomsbury Group | 第16-19页 |
| ·Art’s Superiority over Life | 第19-23页 |
| ·Art’s Capability in Transcending Life | 第21页 |
| ·Art’s Capability in Unification | 第21-23页 |
| ·Art’s Dependence on Life | 第23-30页 |
| ·Art’s Drawing Source Material from Life | 第23-26页 |
| ·Art’s Drawing Inspiration from Life | 第26-30页 |
| Chapter Two The Aesthetic Form－The Poetic Attributes | 第30-46页 |
| ·Symbol and Imagery | 第30-35页 |
| ·The Symbolic Object—“Lighthouse”as the Central Symbol | 第31-33页 |
| ·Imaginative Literary Creation－The Painting Process Vs “Childbirth” | 第33-35页 |
| ·Metrical Language | 第35-38页 |
| ·The Main Forms of Sound Patterns Adopted in the Novel | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Synthetic Use of Various Forms of Sound Patterns | 第37-38页 |
| ·Allusion to Grimm’s Fairy Tale | 第38-46页 |
| ·The Dominant Wife | 第39-43页 |
| ·“Sea”as the Motif Image | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter Three The Aesthetic Technique－The Literary Post-Impressionism | 第46-60页 |
| ·Virginia Woolf’s Aesthetic Concern under the Influence of Post-Impressionism | 第46-48页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Post-Impressionism | 第46页 |
| ·Virginia Woolf’s Literary Post-Impressionist thoery | 第46-48页 |
| ·Sensuous Beauty and Thematic Profundity by Virtue of the Color and Light | 第48-60页 |
| ·A Profusion of Colors | 第49-55页 |
| ·The Employment of Light | 第55-60页 |
| Conclusion | 第60-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-69页 |
