| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-30页 |
| A.T om Wolfe as a Journalist and Novelist | 第15-23页 |
| B.Social Status as Wolfe’s Major Concern | 第23-30页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Bonfire of Vanities--A Bourdieuian Analysis of the Shifting Power Dynamics in 1980s New York | 第30-72页 |
| A.New York City in the 1980s | 第34-40页 |
| 1.Racialized Economy and Reaganomics: Growing Disparity between White and Black | 第35-36页 |
| 2.Master City Builder Robert Moses and the Fall of New York | 第36-38页 |
| 3.South Bronx Decay: Demographic Shift and Highway Incursion | 第38-39页 |
| 4.Misleading Media Report Intensifying Racial Conflict | 第39-40页 |
| B.Characters’Quest for Social Status: Use and Abuse of Different Forms of Capital | 第40-66页 |
| 1.Social Stratification and Individual Habitus | 第43-51页 |
| a) New York’s Stratification after the Fourth Wave of Immigration | 第44-46页 |
| b) Individual Habitus: Spaces Constructed and Tastes Displayed | 第46-51页 |
| 2.Quest For Economic Capital Fueled by the “Bonfire of Vanity” | 第51-57页 |
| a) “Bonfire of Vanity”Scorching Within the Whites | 第52-54页 |
| b) “Bonfire of Vanity”Scorching Among Different “Nations” | 第54-57页 |
| 3.Social Capital Conferring Power and Status | 第57-63页 |
| a) Societal “Favor Bank”Where One Deposits and Withdraws | 第58-60页 |
| b) Abuse of Social Capital: Collusion Between the Press and the Underclass | 第60-63页 |
| 4.Symbolic Capital Exercising Violence: Political Correctness and Moral Superiority | 第63-66页 |
| C.Inheritance of and Transcendence over Naturalistic Writing | 第66-72页 |
| 1.The City Itself Becoming the Displaced Source of Anxiety | 第66-68页 |
| 2.Comparison with Dreiser’s Naturalist Novel Sister Carrie | 第68-72页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ A Man in Full--Southern Cultural Drift as Shown in the Case of Its New Center, Atlanta | 第72-114页 |
| A.Shifting Power Dynamics in the New South | 第74-81页 |
| 1.Rising Economic and Political influence of the African Americans in the South | 第75-76页 |
| 2.Dixie Tradition on the Skids | 第76-77页 |
| 3.Atlanta, a Rising International City in the New South | 第77-79页 |
| 4.Social Division of the Atlanta Society by “Identity Politics” | 第79-81页 |
| B.The Triad of Male Characters’Quest for Status: Vibrancy of Atlanta’s Material Culture and Spiritual Malaise Coexisting with it | 第81-106页 |
| 1.Charlie Croker's Struggle to Retain Manhood in a Veblenian Society | 第83-92页 |
| a) Male Machismo Within Southern Culture and Croker’s Crisis | 第84-87页 |
| b) A Veblenian Society Centering Around Conspicuous Consumption | 第87-92页 |
| 2.Conrad Hensley: Messenger of Epictetus in a Panopticon | 第92-100页 |
| a) Panopticon Society: The Man in Prison | 第93-96页 |
| b) Epictetus’s Doctrine Coming to Rescue | 第96-100页 |
| 3.Roger White: Black Bourgeoisie Torn by Racial Identity Crisis | 第100-106页 |
| C.Cultural Drift: the Old South Giving Way to the New Atlanta of Ambition and Lust | 第106-114页 |
| 1.Sexual Revolution and Subjugation of Women as Trophies | 第107-109页 |
| 2.Social Corruption and Politically Correct Discourses Blighting the South | 第109-112页 |
| 3.Proclaimed Realist Writer Verging on Postmodernism | 第112-114页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ I am Charlotte Simmons--Self Caught in the Hooking Up Culture | 第114-153页 |
| A.Hooking Up Culture in the New Millennium | 第117-126页 |
| 1.Youth at the End of the Century | 第118-120页 |
| 2.Post-feminism and Active Girlhood | 第120-122页 |
| 3.Pressure From Peer Influence and Collective Behavior | 第122-124页 |
| 4.Consuming Youth and Gender in Popular Culture | 第124-126页 |
| B.Charlotte’s Pursuit for Status: Free Will Succumbing to Prevailing Values on Campus | 第126-147页 |
| 1.Status System on Campus: a Chimp Colony with Alpha Males | 第129-138页 |
| a) The World of Nationally Ranked College Basketball Players | 第131-133页 |
| b) The World of Fraternity Boys | 第133-135页 |
| c) The World of Left-wing Intellectuals | 第135-137页 |
| d) Prestige in the Girls’Hierarchy | 第137-138页 |
| 2.Free Will Against A Neuroscientific Understanding of Self | 第138-147页 |
| a) Shadow of Intellectual Influence on Campus | 第140-141页 |
| b) A Neuroscientific View of Self: Marxism and Freudianism Giving way to Neuroscientific Determinism | 第141-144页 |
| c) Charlotte’s Battle against the Shadow: Oscillation between Assurance of Self and Denial of Self | 第144-147页 |
| C.Wolfe Not Losing Faith in Nietzsche’s Overman | 第147-153页 |
| Conclusion | 第153-158页 |
| Bibliography | 第158-169页 |
