| Acknowledgments | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter One: Mythological Atmosphere | 第9-21页 |
| ·Tragic Grecian Heroes | 第9-13页 |
| ·Queen of Night: Eustacia | 第11-12页 |
| ·Oedipus Hero: Michael Henchard | 第12-13页 |
| ·Biblical Allusions and Images | 第13-15页 |
| ·Techniques to create the mysterious atmosphere | 第15-21页 |
| ·Coincidence | 第16-18页 |
| ·Symbolism | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Two: Naturalistic Elements | 第21-28页 |
| ·Hardy and Naturalism | 第21-22页 |
| ·Man as Victim of Instincts: Biological Determinism in Hardy's Novels | 第22-24页 |
| ·Man as Victim of Environment: Social Determinism in Hardy's Novels | 第24-25页 |
| ·The influence of Darwinian Evolution on Hardy's novels | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Three: People of the Soil: Features of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Fictions | 第28-36页 |
| ·The Unity of the Past and Present in a Local Environment | 第28-30页 |
| ·Isolation of Individual Character from the Social Environment | 第30-32页 |
| ·The Influence of Physical and Climatic Conditions upon Characters | 第32-36页 |
| ·Melancholy in the Nature of the Country Folk | 第33-34页 |
| ·Peasant Humor | 第34-36页 |
| Conclusion | 第36-38页 |
| Bibliography | 第38-39页 |
