| 中文摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-9页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第9-16页 |
| ·THE MOTIVATION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE THESIS | 第9-10页 |
| ·THE CLAIM OF THE THESIS | 第10页 |
| ·BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORETIC FRAMEWORKS | 第10页 |
| ·BACKGROUND STUDIES | 第10-12页 |
| ·Victorian England | 第10-11页 |
| ·Victorian novelists represented by George Eliot | 第11-12页 |
| ·THE OUTLINE OF THE THESIS | 第12-16页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第16-23页 |
| ·RESEARCHES ABROAD | 第16-20页 |
| ·RESEARCHES IN CHINA | 第20-23页 |
| CHAPTER THREE RELEVANT THEORIES FOR THE PRESENT STUDY | 第23-29页 |
| ·THE LIFE PHILOSOPHY OF HENRY BERGSON | 第23-28页 |
| ·An overview of Bergson’s philosophy | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Concept of Durée (Duration) | 第24-27页 |
| ·The Concept of ?lan Vital (Vital Impetus) | 第27-28页 |
| ·DIALECTIC MATERIALISM OF MARX | 第28-29页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR LIFE PHILOSOPHIES REFLECTED IN THE CHARACTERS OF The Mill on the Floss | 第29-52页 |
| ·TOM: INFATUATION WITH THE PAST AND REJECTION OF THE CHANGE | 第30-38页 |
| ·Tom’s backward early life | 第30-31页 |
| ·Regaining the mill: the approach for Tom to recapture the past | 第31-32页 |
| ·Tom’s procedure to return to the past | 第32-36页 |
| ·Reasons for Tom’s obsession for the past | 第36-38页 |
| ·MAGGIE: ENSLAVEMENT TO THE PAST AND INCAPACITY TO CHANGE | 第38-47页 |
| ·Reasons for Maggie’s endeavor of recapturing the past | 第38-39页 |
| ·The lack of authority in Maggie’s childhood | 第39-40页 |
| ·The approach for Maggie to return to the past | 第40-41页 |
| ·The struggle between returning to the past and starting for a new life | 第41-44页 |
| ·Maggie’s Electra Complex | 第44-46页 |
| ·Impossibility to return to the past | 第46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| ·MR. DEANE AND BOB JAKIN | 第47-50页 |
| ·Mr. Deane: adaptation to social changes | 第48-49页 |
| ·Bob Jakin: a life under constant changes | 第49-50页 |
| ·THE SYMBOLIC MEANING OF THE FINAL FLOOD AND THE DEATH OF TOM AND MAGGIE | 第50-52页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第52-54页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第54-55页 |
| REFERENCES | 第55-59页 |
| APPENDIX | 第59页 |
| 作者在攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文目录 | 第59页 |
