声明
摘要
Abstract
Contents
Introduction
Willa Cather and the Two Novels
Theories of Feminism
Literature Review
Chapter One Two of a Prairie Trilogy
1.1 Wild Nebraska
1.2 A Female Pioneers’ Epic
1.3 The Beginning and Peak Period of the American Westward Settlement
Chapter Two Rebels in the Patriarchal Society
2.1 Female Pioneers on the Nebraska Prairie
2.1.1 Developing Self-awareness of Female Pioneers
2.1.2 The Changing Relationship between Female Pioneers and Nature
2.2 The Deconstruction of Gender
2.2.1 Subversion of Traditional Family Relations
2.2.2 Gender Displacement
Chapter Three Key Features of Cather’s Feminism
3.1 Feminism Growing out of Pioneer Life
3.2 Distinctive Qualities of Cather’s Feminism by a comparative study with Virginia Woolf
3.2.1 The Influences of Life Experience on Their Feminist Content
3.2.2 Different External Forms of Feminism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgements