| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| I. Introduction | 第9-17页 |
| ·Brief Social Background Information | 第9-12页 |
| ·A Brief Review of Middlemarch Studies and Fundamentals of Polyphony | 第12-17页 |
| II. Beneath the Androcentric Camouflage: A Sober-Minded Feminist | 第17-33页 |
| ·Eliot's Particular Way of Educating Her Fellow Ladies | 第17-29页 |
| ·Dorothea vs. Celia: Passion vs. Reason | 第19-23页 |
| ·Mary vs. Rosamond: Honesty vs. Devilishness | 第23-25页 |
| ·Mrs. Garth & Mrs. Vincy: Liberalism Implanted in Orthodoxy | 第25-27页 |
| ·Some Other Middlemarch Women | 第27-29页 |
| ·Eliot's Rationalist Ideas for Women | 第29-33页 |
| III. Politics and Religion: Incompetent yet Indispensable | 第33-42页 |
| ·Political Reformation: Premature yet not without Hope | 第33-38页 |
| ·Religion as a spiritual beguilement | 第38-42页 |
| IV. Middlemarch: a Symphony of Multiple Voices | 第42-52页 |
| ·The Complicated Narrative Voices | 第43-48页 |
| ·Present: Reverberation of the Past | 第48-52页 |
| V. Conclusion | 第52-56页 |
| Bibliography | 第56-58页 |
