| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·John Winslow Irving and His Experience | 第10-11页 |
| ·The Cider House Rules | 第11-14页 |
| ·A Brief Review of the Studies on the Novel | 第14-16页 |
| 2 New Historicism | 第16-21页 |
| ·The Rising of New Historicism | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Difference between New Historicism and New Critics, Old Historicism | 第17-19页 |
| ·A Theoretical Limit of New Historicism | 第19-21页 |
| 3 The Historicity of Texts and the Textuality of History | 第21-32页 |
| ·The Historicity of Texts | 第21-28页 |
| ·The Second World War | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Abortion Law | 第23-25页 |
| ·Environment Damage | 第25-26页 |
| ·Racial Discrimination | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Textuality of History | 第28-32页 |
| ·A Brief History of St. Cloud’s | 第28-30页 |
| ·Similarity between the Novel and Great Expectation on Subject | 第30-32页 |
| 4 Subversion and Containment in the Novel | 第32-38页 |
| ·Homer as a Runaway and a Returner to the Orphanage | 第33-34页 |
| ·Homer’s Objection to Abortion and His Operation for Rose Rose | 第34页 |
| ·Love between Candy and Homer and Candy’s Return to Wally | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Black’s Own Rules and Mr. Rose’s Death | 第35-36页 |
| ·Melony as a Lesbian and Her Death | 第36-37页 |
| ·Love between Rose Rose and Angel and Rose Rose’s Escape | 第37-38页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第38-40页 |
| Bibliography | 第40-42页 |
