| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Locating Thoreau with Yeats: the Intolerable Anxiety of Sharing Memories | 第14-27页 |
| ·The ethics of perception | 第14-20页 |
| ·Locating Thoreau | 第20-21页 |
| ·Nineteenth Century Aesthetics of Nature | 第21-23页 |
| ·Yeats: Exploring the Labyrinth of the Self | 第23-27页 |
| Chapter 2 History: an Organic Machine Dealing with Logical Games of Sense and Sensibility | 第27-36页 |
| ·Universal or historical human nature? | 第28-29页 |
| ·Does history possess directionality? | 第29-33页 |
| ·Historical objectivity | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter 3 Imagination and Recollection: Literary or Non-literary? | 第36-53页 |
| ·The Power of Historical Materials | 第36-41页 |
| ·The Process of Poetic Effects | 第41-47页 |
| ·Literary Texts or Non-literary Texts? | 第47-53页 |
| Conclusion | 第53-55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-57页 |
