| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-13页 |
| Chapter One Life as the Source of Creation | 第13-27页 |
| ·Insistence on the Authenticity of Real Life | 第13-15页 |
| ·New Women in Women's Liberation | 第15-19页 |
| ·Isabel Archer | 第15-17页 |
| ·Henrietta Stackpole | 第17-19页 |
| ·Lost in European World Due to American Cultural Deficiency | 第19-27页 |
| ·Henry James's Personal Travel Experience | 第19-20页 |
| ·Isabel's Absorption in Europe | 第20-23页 |
| ·Isabel's Worship towards Madame Merle and Gilbert Osmond | 第23-27页 |
| Chapter Two Derailments from Traditional Focuses | 第27-42页 |
| ·Emphasis on Ambiguities and Uncertainties | 第27-28页 |
| ·Ambiguities of Characters' Personalities | 第28-33页 |
| ·Sophisticated and Sympathetic Madame Merle | 第28-31页 |
| ·Indifferent but Worldly Gilbert Osmond | 第31-33页 |
| ·Uncertain Points of View | 第33-42页 |
| ·Omniscient Point of View | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Touchetts' Points of View | 第35-37页 |
| ·Other Characters' Points of View | 第37-39页 |
| ·Isabel as the Original Center of Consciousness | 第39-42页 |
| Chapter Three Isabel's Return:Integration of Tradition and Modernity | 第42-53页 |
| ·Being Endowed with Complicated Personality | 第42-48页 |
| ·A nearly Perfect Woman but with Fatal Disadvantage | 第42-45页 |
| ·A New Woman with Traditional Sense of Morality | 第45-48页 |
| ·Incomparable Infatuation towards Rome | 第48-53页 |
| ·Keeping Promise for Pansy | 第48-50页 |
| ·Rome as a Historically Glamorous City | 第50-53页 |
| Conclusion | 第53-55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-60页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第60页 |
