| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-15页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第10-12页 |
| ·Theoretical Framework and Structure of this Thesis | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter I Mapping the Postbellum New York: Genius Landscape as Nightmare in The Waterworks | 第15-28页 |
| ·The Postbellum Changes of New York | 第16-19页 |
| ·Different Cartographic Narratives by Donne and Mcllvaine | 第19-24页 |
| ·Mcllvaine’s Reaction to Sartorius’s Quest for Human Sanctuaries | 第24-28页 |
| Chapter II Growing Up in the Conspiracyland: World’s Fair | 第28-38页 |
| ·Circumscribed by the Bronx Community | 第28-34页 |
| ·Edgar’s Education in the New York World’s Fair | 第34-38页 |
| Chapter III A Wounded Heart Looking for Its Own Geography: The Writer’s Dilemma of Poeticizing New York in Lives of the Poets | 第38-45页 |
| ·Perceiving the Increasing Heterogeneity of New York | 第39-41页 |
| ·Getting Out of the New York Neurosis | 第41-45页 |
| Epilogue | 第45-46页 |
| Bibliography | 第46-48页 |
