| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-17页 |
| ·Origin of the Thesis | 第9-10页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第10-14页 |
| ·Review of Westem literature | 第11-13页 |
| ·Criticism on His Detective Stories | 第11页 |
| ·Criticism on his Horror Stories | 第11-12页 |
| ·Criticism on his Revenge Stories | 第12页 |
| ·The New Historicism | 第12-13页 |
| ·Review of Domestic Literature | 第13-14页 |
| ·Originality of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| ·The Organization of the thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Cultural Origin of Poe's Gothic Stories | 第17-24页 |
| ·Development of Gothic Story | 第17-18页 |
| ·Development in Europe | 第17-18页 |
| ·Development in America | 第18页 |
| ·Poe's Inheritance of the Gothic Tradition | 第18-24页 |
| ·Basic Features of the European Gothic Stories | 第19-20页 |
| ·Similarities between the European Gothic and Poe's Horror Stories | 第20-24页 |
| ·Similarity in Theme Choice | 第20-22页 |
| ·Similarity in the Horror Scenes | 第22页 |
| ·Similarity in the Grotesquery Plot | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Three Psychological Origin of Poe's Gothic Stories | 第24-33页 |
| ·The Introduction to Poe's Life Background | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Formation for Poe's Character and His Personality | 第25-33页 |
| ·Homey's Theory of Neurosis, Erickson's Theory of Acquisition of Basic Trust and their Analysis of Poe's Personality | 第25-29页 |
| ·The Personalities of Poe | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Relation between Poe's Personality and Gothic Story | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter Four The Social Origin of Poe's Creation | 第33-43页 |
| ·The Social Changes in Poe's Time | 第33-36页 |
| ·Industrialization,Urbanization and Immigration Waves | 第33-36页 |
| ·Economic Crisis | 第36页 |
| ·The Social Ideological Changes in Poe's Times | 第36-38页 |
| ·The Influences of the Enlightenment, Secularization, the Death of God | 第37页 |
| ·Sentimentalism | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Ideological Confusion | 第38页 |
| ·Poe's Gothic Creation and Social Disorder | 第38-43页 |
| ·Poe's Gothic Theme and Social Disorder | 第38-39页 |
| ·Poe's Gothic Creation and the Publishing Industry | 第39-41页 |
| ·Poe's Gothic Creation and Different Social Ideologies | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第43-45页 |
| Works Cited | 第45-47页 |
| Publications | 第47页 |
