| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第10-20页 |
| 1.1 Mosses from an Old Manse:a modern classic by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 第10-12页 |
| 1.2 Previous research on Hawthorne's works concerning the issue of modernity | 第12-16页 |
| 1.3 Primary assumptions and methodology of the thesis | 第16-20页 |
| 2. The Crisis of Modernity Revealed in Mosses | 第20-28页 |
| 2.1 The ecological crisis of modernity | 第21-22页 |
| 2.2 The humanity crisis of modernity | 第22-28页 |
| 2.2.1 Self-alienation | 第23-25页 |
| 2.2.2 The alienated interpersonal relationship | 第25-28页 |
| 3. Reflection on Modernity Manifested in Mosses | 第28-37页 |
| 3.1 Query of the rationality of science and technology | 第29-31页 |
| 3.2 Query of transcendentalism's influence on modern American society | 第31-34页 |
| 3.3 Query of the utopian reform movements | 第34-37页 |
| 4. Modernity Conceived in Hawthorne's Reflection on Modernity | 第37-50页 |
| 4.1 Anxiety about modern science | 第39-41页 |
| 4.2 Nostalgia of the modern urban dwellers | 第41-44页 |
| 4.3 Man's self-salvation in the modern arena | 第44-50页 |
| 4.3.1 Internal self-salvation:re-examination of human nature | 第46-47页 |
| 4.3.2 External self-salvation:maintaining of the magnetic chain of humanity | 第47-50页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第50-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-55页 |
