| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One The Idealistic Hardy | 第12-25页 |
| ·Hardy's Early Life | 第12-13页 |
| ·Hardy the Countryman | 第13-16页 |
| ·Under the Greenwood Tree-Joyous Ode to Pastoral Ideal | 第16-20页 |
| ·The Background in Writing Under the Greenwood Tree | 第16-17页 |
| ·Romanticism and Idealism in Under the Greenwood Tree | 第17-20页 |
| ·Far from the Madding Crowd-Melancholy Ode to the Pastoral Ideal | 第20-25页 |
| ·The Background in Writing Far from the Madding Crowd | 第20-21页 |
| ·Romanticism and Idealism with Melancholy in Far from the Madding Crowd | 第21-25页 |
| Chapter Two The Hesitating and Striving Hardy | 第25-39页 |
| ·The Return of the Native-the Prelude to Tragedy of Wessex Rural Society | 第26-31页 |
| ·The Background in Writing The Return of the Native | 第26-27页 |
| ·A Tragedy of Environment | 第27-29页 |
| ·Hardy's Striving and Enterprising Spirit in The Return of the Native | 第29-31页 |
| ·The Mayor of Casterbridge-The Climax of Tragedy of Wessex Rural Society | 第31-39页 |
| ·The Background in Writing The Mayor of Casterbridge | 第31-33页 |
| ·A Tragedy of Character | 第33-36页 |
| ·The Hesitating and Striving Hardy | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Three The Realistic Hardy | 第39-54页 |
| ·Hardy's Literary Thoughts in the Third Stage | 第39-40页 |
| ·Tess of the D 'Urberville-The Fate of Ruined Wessex Peasantry | 第40-46页 |
| ·The Tragedy of a Pure Woman | 第40-42页 |
| ·Hardy's Rational Spirit and Realism in Tess of the D 'Urberville | 第42-46页 |
| ·Jude the Obscure-The Aspiration and Tragedy of a worker | 第46-54页 |
| ·The Background in Writing Jude the Obscure | 第46页 |
| ·The Aspiration and Tragedy of a worker | 第46-51页 |
| ·The Realistic and Rational Hardy | 第51-54页 |
| Conclusion | 第54-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-60页 |
