| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abbreviation | 第8-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-18页 |
| Margaret Drabble and The Middle Ground | 第9-11页 |
| Literature Review | 第11-14页 |
| Thesis Statement and Structure | 第14-18页 |
| Chapter One Drabble's Concept of"the Middle Ground" | 第18-26页 |
| ·Drabble's Life Experience | 第18-20页 |
| ·The Formation of Drabble's Concept of"the Middle Ground" | 第20-26页 |
| ·Drabble's Ambivalent Feminist Consciousness | 第21-23页 |
| ·Drabble's Inheritance of"the Great Tradition" | 第23-26页 |
| Chapter Two Female Characters Living in"the Middle Ground" | 第26-42页 |
| ·Middle-life Crisis of the Female Character | 第26-28页 |
| ·A Way-out as Compromise | 第28-42页 |
| ·Marriage or Divorce, in Two Forms but One Essence | 第29-32页 |
| ·The Conflict between Motherhood and Individualism | 第32-38页 |
| ·Intimacy with Male or Female? | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Three "The Middle Ground" between Tradition and Postmodernism | 第42-57页 |
| ·Conventional Devices | 第42-51页 |
| ·Authorized Narration | 第43-45页 |
| ·Realistic Description | 第45-48页 |
| ·Round and Flat Characters | 第48-51页 |
| ·Postmodernist Strategies | 第51-57页 |
| ·Free Association | 第52-53页 |
| ·Open Ending | 第53-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-62页 |
