| Acknowledgements | 第6-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-15页 |
| 摘要 | 第16-21页 |
| Introduction | 第21-50页 |
| Ⅰ.Defining "Wilderness" | 第22-29页 |
| Ⅱ.Medieval Landscapes and Anglo-Saxon Wilderness:A Review | 第29-38页 |
| Ⅲ. The Research Scope and Theoretical Approaches | 第38-46页 |
| Ⅳ.The Layout of the Dissertation | 第46-50页 |
| Chapter One Natural Wilderness:Alterity of the Human Society | 第50-90页 |
| Ⅰ.Hostile Nature and Monstrous Wilderness | 第50-56页 |
| Ⅱ. Wilderness and the Hall on the Horizontal-Vertical Axes in Beowulf | 第56-68页 |
| Ⅲ. Defining Heroism:Beowulf's Battles with the Foes in Wilderness | 第68-83页 |
| Ⅳ. Sea:Space of Alienation | 第83-90页 |
| Chapter Two Exiles' Psychological Wilderness in Quest for Home | 第90-122页 |
| Ⅰ. Psychogeography of Exiles in the Old English Elegies | 第90-95页 |
| Ⅱ.Inner Wilderness via Weather and Seascapes:The Wanderer and The Seafarer | 第95-102页 |
| Ⅲ.From Ruined Home to Potential Paradise | 第102-109页 |
| Ⅳ. Stasis of Female Exiles in Wilderness:The Wife's Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer | 第109-122页 |
| Chapter Three Religious Spatiality of Wilderness:Desert Monasticism | 第122-173页 |
| Ⅰ. Theological Sources of Wilderness | 第122-129页 |
| Ⅱ.Holy Hermitage vs.Evil Wilderness:Territorial Conflicts in Guthlac Narratives | 第129-146页 |
| Ⅲ.Pastoral Care vs.Eremitic Life:Qualitative Monasteries in Cuthbert Narratives | 第146-155页 |
| Ⅵ.Externalisation of Sainthood:Transforming Landscapes and Taming Wild Animals | 第155-160页 |
| Ⅴ. Ascent from the Locus Amoenus to Paradise:The Phoenix | 第160-173页 |
| Chapter Four From Wilderness to Eden:the Mythologisation of England | 第173-209页 |
| Ⅰ. Marginal and Wild England:De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae | 第174-181页 |
| Ⅱ. Britannia:an Edenic Island in Historia ecclesiastica | 第181-186页 |
| Ⅲ.Wilderness in the Political Geography of Historia ecclesiastica | 第186-191页 |
| Ⅳ. Salvation of Gentis Anglorum:Rebuilding Eden in Wilderness | 第191-209页 |
| Conclusion | 第209-218页 |
| Selected Bibliography | 第218-237页 |
| Appendix | 第237页 |
