TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction:"Margaret Drabble:Feminist Novelist?".....1 Chapter One:"In An Untherapeutic World"................34 Chapter Two:HIndependent Women".......................100 Chapter Three:mEros and Nature"............. .....159 Chapter Four:"Yearning for Transcedence"..............198 Chapter Five:"A Passionate Survivor"..................236 Chapter Six:mApocalypsem..............................275 Chapter Seven:"A Dialectical Solution"........... 。··.315 Appendix,·····。··。 ·…………….361 Partia1 Bibliography,············ .389 ii