| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-12页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第12-22页 |
| 1.1 Definition of Madness and Mikhail Bakhtin's Carnival Theory | 第12-20页 |
| 1.2 Madwomen in Dickens's Great Expectations and Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret | 第20-22页 |
| CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW | 第22-34页 |
| 2.1 Literary Studies on Madwoman in the Two Novels at Home and Abroad | 第22-29页 |
| 2.2 Basic Framework and Significance of The Thesis | 第29-34页 |
| CHAPTER 3 THE CHARACTERIZATION OF "MADWOMEN" IN THEVICTORIAN ERA | 第34-45页 |
| 3.1 Social Conditions of Women in the Victorian Era | 第34-38页 |
| 3.2 Similarities and Differences in Male and Female Writers' Writing Orientations | 第38-45页 |
| CHAPTER 4 TWO MADWOMEN'S BAKHTINIAN CARNIVAL JOURNEY | 第45-62页 |
| 4.1 Crowning and Discrowning of the Two Madwomen | 第45-50页 |
| 4.1.1 Crowning and discrowning of Miss Havisham | 第46-48页 |
| 4.1.2 Crowning and discrowning of Lady Audley | 第48-50页 |
| 4.2 Carnival Laughter of the Two Madwomen | 第50-53页 |
| 4.2.1 Carnival laughter of Miss Havisham | 第51-52页 |
| 4.2.2 Carnival laughter of Lady Audley | 第52-53页 |
| 4.3 Fire Imagery Related to the Two Madwomen | 第53-57页 |
| 4.3.1 Miss Havisham—death and rebirth | 第54-55页 |
| 4.3.2 Lady Audley—destroying authority and reconstructing femininity | 第55-57页 |
| 4.4 Causes of the Two Madwomen's Madness | 第57-62页 |
| 4.4.1 Causes of Miss Havisham's madness | 第58-59页 |
| 4.4.2 Causes of Lady Audley's madness | 第59-62页 |
| CHAPTER 5 INTERPRETING THE CHARACTERIZATION OF"MADWOMEN" IN CARNIVAL THEORY | 第62-72页 |
| 5.1 Causes of Portraying the Madwomen Image | 第63-66页 |
| 5.1.1 Liberal voices and survival strategies | 第63-65页 |
| 5.1.2 Rebellion against the masculine society | 第65-66页 |
| 5.2 Significance of Portraying the Madwomen Image | 第66-69页 |
| 5.2.1 Struggling for freedom and equality | 第67-68页 |
| 5.2.2 Revealing social situations by abnormal behavior | 第68-69页 |
| 5.3 Marching on to Civilization from Madness and Carnival | 第69-72页 |
| CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION | 第72-74页 |
| REFERENCES | 第74-75页 |
