| Abstract | 第7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第9-20页 |
| 1.1 Howells,The Rise of Silas Lapham and the Focus of this Study | 第9-10页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第10-15页 |
| 1.2.1 Studies of The Rise of Silas Lapham Abroad | 第11-13页 |
| 1.2.2 Studies of The Rise of Silas Lapham at Home | 第13-15页 |
| 1.3 Purpose and Significance of the Study | 第15页 |
| 1.4 Theoretical Framework | 第15-20页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Alienation: Social Context and Its Influence on Silas Lapham | 第20-35页 |
| 2.1 American Social Context in the Late Nineteenth Century | 第20-28页 |
| 2.1.1 Changing Social Values | 第21-25页 |
| 2.1.2 Widespread Degeneration | 第25-28页 |
| 2.2 The Embodiment of Silas Lapham’s Alienation | 第28-35页 |
| 2.2.1 The Loss of Self | 第29-33页 |
| 2.2.2 The Failure to Be a Social Man | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Redemption: Silas Lapham’s Material Bankruptcy and Moral Prosperity | 第35-45页 |
| 3.1 Loving Himself: Rebirth after the Hard Time | 第35-40页 |
| 3.1.1 His Consciousness of Being a “Mechanical” Existence | 第35-39页 |
| 3.1.2 Retaining His Self-Awareness | 第39-40页 |
| 3.2 Loving Others: Rebuilding a Harmonious Society | 第40-45页 |
| 3.2.1 The Love for the Veterans’ Family | 第40-42页 |
| 3.2.2 The Love for Rogers | 第42-43页 |
| 3.2.3 The Love for His Family | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Howells’s Realism and His Ethical Contemplation | 第45-55页 |
| 4.1 Howells’s “Gentle” Realism and Its reasons | 第45-49页 |
| 4.1.1 Howells’s “Gentle” Realism | 第45-48页 |
| 4.1.2 Reasons for Howells’s “Gentle” Realism | 第48-49页 |
| 4.2 The Ethical Contemplation behind Howells’s Realism | 第49-55页 |
| 4.2.1 Reasons for Howells’s Ethical Contemplation | 第50-51页 |
| 4.2.2 The Representation of Howells’s Business Ethics | 第51-55页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Conclusion | 第55-57页 |
| References | 第57-60页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第60页 |
