| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Introduction | 第8-18页 |
| 0.1 A Brief Introduction to Charles Dickens and Hard Times | 第8-13页 |
| 0.2 Literature Review | 第13-16页 |
| 0.3 Thesis Statement | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter One Existentialist Feminism | 第18-29页 |
| 1.1 The Origin and Development of Existentialist Feminism | 第18-20页 |
| 1.2 The Theoretical Contents of Existentialist Feminism | 第20-29页 |
| 1.2.1 Female Survival Situation | 第20-23页 |
| 1.2.2 Female "the Other" Position and Self-consciousness | 第23-26页 |
| 1.2.3 Female Transcendence of Self: Free Choice and Responsibility-taking | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter Two Louisa's Survival Situation in Hard Times | 第29-44页 |
| 2.1 Louisa's Social Predicaments | 第29-39页 |
| 2.1.1 The Utilitarian and Inequitable Society | 第30-35页 |
| 2.1.2 Louisa's Economic Dependence | 第35-39页 |
| 2.2 Louisa's Interior Predicaments | 第39-44页 |
| 2.2.1 Louisa's Previous Dreadness of Male Authority | 第40-42页 |
| 2.2.2 Louisa's Previous Invisibility of Self-consciousness | 第42-44页 |
| Chapter Three Louisa's Shift from "the Other" to the Self in Hard Times | 第44-59页 |
| 3.1 Louisa's "the Other" Position | 第44-48页 |
| 3.1.1 The Internalization of Traditional Ideology | 第45-46页 |
| 3.1.2 The Alienation from Society | 第46-48页 |
| 3.2 Louisa's Changes in Spiritual Aspect | 第48-53页 |
| 3.2.1 The Awareness of Injustice in the Patriarchal Society | 第49-51页 |
| 3.2.2 The Change of Louisa's Attitude Towards Tom | 第51-53页 |
| 3.3 Louisa's Rebellion in Action | 第53-59页 |
| 3.3.1 Her Love Affair with James | 第54-56页 |
| 3.3.2 The Expression of Minds to Her Father | 第56-59页 |
| Chapter Four Louisa's Transcendence of Self in Hard Times | 第59-77页 |
| 4.1 Her Choice to Pursue Spiritual and Physical Freedom | 第59-70页 |
| 4.1.1 Pursuit of Spiritual Freedom | 第60-64页 |
| 4.1.2 Pursuit of Physical Freedom | 第64-70页 |
| 4.2 Responsibility-taking for Herself and Others | 第70-77页 |
| 4.2.1 Becoming the Family Backbone | 第71-73页 |
| 4.2.2 Rescuing Others from Predicaments | 第73-77页 |
| Conclusion | 第77-79页 |
| Notes | 第79-81页 |
| Bibliography | 第81-84页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间所发表的学术论文 | 第84-86页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第86页 |
