| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·Research on Swift's Fiction | 第10-11页 |
| ·Research on Last Orders | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Ruinous History | 第15-20页 |
| ·Benjamin's View of History | 第15-16页 |
| ·Personal Histories in Last Orders | 第16-20页 |
| ·Rigid Personal History | 第16-17页 |
| ·Floating Personal History | 第17-18页 |
| ·Parochial Personal History | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two The Ruinous Present | 第20-40页 |
| ·Ruinous Atmosphere | 第20-23页 |
| ·Ruinous Values | 第23-31页 |
| ·Ruination of Identity | 第23-24页 |
| ·Spiritual Crisis | 第24-26页 |
| ·Destruction of Conventional Views of Some Concepts | 第26-31页 |
| ·Bewilderment of Knowledge | 第27-28页 |
| ·Destruction of Authority | 第28-29页 |
| ·Destruction of Rule and Duty | 第29-31页 |
| ·Ruinous Physical Environment | 第31-35页 |
| ·Various Kinds of Homes | 第31-34页 |
| ·Strange Home | 第31-32页 |
| ·Dead Home | 第32-33页 |
| ·Mechanical Home | 第33-34页 |
| ·Bar and Gambling House | 第34-35页 |
| ·Ruinous Mental Situation as Melancholia | 第35-40页 |
| ·Freudian Theories of Mourning and Melancholia | 第35页 |
| ·Melancholia Caused by Ruined Relationship between Different Generations | 第35-37页 |
| ·Melancholia Caused by Ruined Relationship among the Same Generation | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Three Redemption | 第40-50页 |
| ·"Shocks" in Last Order | 第40-42页 |
| ·Redemptive Elements within the Relationship between Characters and Themselves | 第42-44页 |
| ·Redemptive Elements within the Relationship among Characters | 第44-47页 |
| ·Redemptive Elements within the Relationship between Characters and Society | 第47-48页 |
| ·Redemptive Elements within the Relationship between Characters and Nature | 第48-50页 |
| Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| Works Cited | 第52-57页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第57-58页 |
| Publications | 第58-59页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第59页 |
