| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| Chapter Two Elizabethans' Imagination of Garden | 第17-29页 |
| ·Garden in Literary Tradition | 第17-22页 |
| ·Sidney's Imagination of Elizabethan Empire as a Garden | 第22-29页 |
| Chapter Three Arcadia as An Enclosed Garden and An Empire Garden in Book I | 第29-43页 |
| ·Earthly Paradise | 第29-35页 |
| ·Woman as the Hostess of Garden | 第35-43页 |
| Chapter Four Disfigured Face of Arcadia by the Internal and External Causes in Book II | 第43-61页 |
| ·Peace Broken by Emergence of Private and Public Sins | 第43-53页 |
| ·Psychological Turmoil Under Political Unrest | 第53-61页 |
| Chapter Five Decadence and Dissolution of Arcadia-Garden in Book III | 第61-77页 |
| ·From Arcadia-Garden to Blood-battlefield | 第61-69页 |
| ·Military rivalry | 第62-65页 |
| ·Religious clash | 第65-69页 |
| ·Destruction of Innocence and Righteousness by Deteriorating Arcadia | 第69-77页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第77-80页 |
| Bibliography | 第80-84页 |
