| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-10页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第10-22页 |
| ·Eliot's life and her three early novels | 第10-12页 |
| ·George Eliot studies | 第12-16页 |
| ·An overview of ecocriticism and the focus of this dissertation | 第16-22页 |
| 2. Revelation of the Imbalance of the Three relationships | 第22-42页 |
| ·The imbalance of man's relationship with nature | 第22-31页 |
| ·Natural beauty vs. industrial contamination | 第23-27页 |
| ·Nature's materialization by man | 第27-29页 |
| ·Man as master of nature | 第29-31页 |
| ·The unnatural human relationship | 第31-35页 |
| ·The distorted relationship between lovers | 第32-33页 |
| ·The materialized kin relationship | 第33-35页 |
| ·The imbalance between man and self | 第35-42页 |
| ·Loss of identity | 第36-39页 |
| ·Oppression of mechanization on man's nature | 第39-42页 |
| 3. Construction of the Balance of the Three relationships | 第42-48页 |
| ·Return to nature | 第42-45页 |
| ·The healing force of pure natural human relations | 第45-48页 |
| 4. Conclusion | 第48-50页 |
| Bibliography | 第50-52页 |
