| 中文摘要 | 第1-3页 |
| Abstract | 第3-4页 |
| 中文文摘 | 第4-6页 |
| Synopsis | 第6-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-19页 |
| ·Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter | 第10-16页 |
| ·Literature review | 第16页 |
| ·Significance and structure of the thesis | 第16-19页 |
| Chapter Two Romance and Hawthorne's Problem of "Horizon of Expectation" | 第19-24页 |
| ·Traditional Romance | 第19-20页 |
| ·Reader-response criticism | 第20-21页 |
| ·Hawthorne's Romance | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter Three Romance and Hawthorne's Battle with his "Interpretive community" | 第24-29页 |
| ·Hawthorne's identity of being a professional writer | 第24-25页 |
| ·Hawthorne's historical "interpretive community" | 第25-29页 |
| Chapter Four Characteristics of The Scarlet Letter as a fiction | 第29-33页 |
| ·Realistic themes | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Puritanical settings | 第30-31页 |
| ·Vivid description of the protagonists and the characters | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter Five Characteristics of The Scarlet Letter as a romance | 第33-40页 |
| ·Subtle anatomy of human spirits | 第33-36页 |
| ·Broadly applied symbolisms | 第36-37页 |
| ·Carefully developed aesthetics of representation | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Six Three main subversions in The Scarlet Letter | 第40-50页 |
| ·Hawthorne himself, a successful subversion | 第40-41页 |
| ·The heroine --Hester, a successful subversion | 第41-49页 |
| ·The hero--Dimmesdale, an unsuccessful subversion | 第49-50页 |
| Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| References | 第52-55页 |
| 攻读学位期间承担的科研任务与主要成果 | 第55-56页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第56-57页 |
| 个人简历 | 第57-58页 |
