| 摘要 | 第1-15页 |
| Abstract | 第15-17页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第17-21页 |
| Introduction | 第21-32页 |
| Chapter 1 The Death of the Writer:An Intensified Crisis of the Writer's Survival | 第32-67页 |
| ·Casti, Fasti, and Keats:a Prediction of the Writer's Death | 第32-41页 |
| ·The Striking of the Parish Church Clock and the Death of Reardon | 第41-54页 |
| ·"Dwellers in the Valley of the Shadow of Books" and the Death of Alfred Yule | 第54-67页 |
| Chapter 2 The Change of the Late Nineteenth-century Literary Field | 第67-89页 |
| ·A Widened Literary Field | 第67-73页 |
| ·The Domination of Mercenary Writers | 第73-80页 |
| ·The Nature of the Literary Field | 第80-89页 |
| Chapter 3 A "Pathological" Study of the Crisis as Revealed in Four Core Images | 第89-134页 |
| ·The Workhouse Bell | 第90-102页 |
| ·The Fire | 第102-114页 |
| ·"The Future Aristarchus" | 第114-124页 |
| ·The "Grizzled" Horse | 第124-134页 |
| Chapter 4 A Cultural Response to the Crisis | 第134-167页 |
| ·Waymark's Endeavour to Create a Cultural Role of the Writer | 第134-146页 |
| ·Egremont's "Cultural Crusade" for Improving Reading Taste | 第146-157页 |
| ·Ryecroft's Aspiration for a Zest of Life in Writing | 第157-167页 |
| Conclusion | 第167-170页 |
| Appendix 1 George Gissing's Books | 第170-173页 |
| Appendix 2 A Chronology of George Gissing | 第173-175页 |
| Appendix 3 The Six Standards of Education in The Revised Code of Regulations(1872) | 第175-177页 |
| References | 第177-185页 |
