| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-18页 |
| ·Women’s Living Condition in the 19th Century | 第8-10页 |
| ·George Eliot’s Life and Her Feminine Consciousness | 第10-12页 |
| ·Henry James’Life and His Unique Sense of Femininity | 第12-15页 |
| ·George Eliot and Henry James | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter 1 Tragic Marriage in Middlemarch and The Portrait of a Lady | 第18-26页 |
| ·Dorothea Brooke’s Life and Marriage | 第18-22页 |
| ·Marriage with Casaubon, a Disillusionment | 第18-20页 |
| ·Marriage with Ladislaw, a Compromise | 第20-22页 |
| ·Isabel Archer’s Life and Marriage | 第22-26页 |
| ·Rejection of Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood | 第22-24页 |
| ·Marriage with Osmond, a Virtual Conspiracy | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 2 Causes of Their Tragic Marriage | 第26-48页 |
| ·Social Causes for Their Tragedy | 第26-33页 |
| ·Cult of the Lady | 第26-29页 |
| ·Meanness of Opportunity | 第29-33页 |
| ·Defects in the Heroines’Nature | 第33-42页 |
| ·Dorothea’s Education and Her Inconsistency | 第33-35页 |
| ·Isabel’s Conservation and Her Inconsistency | 第35-37页 |
| ·Egotism and Self-effacement | 第37-42页 |
| ·Feminine Consciousness of the Authors | 第42-48页 |
| ·Duality of George Eliot’s Feminine Consciousness | 第42-45页 |
| ·Uniqueness of Henry James’Feminine Consciousness | 第45-48页 |
| Conclusion | 第48-51页 |
| Bibliography | 第51-53页 |
