| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·About A.S. Byatt and Her Literary Achievement | 第10页 |
| ·About the Features and Themes of Possession | 第10-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Byatt's Historical Consciousness | 第16-41页 |
| ·Juxtaposition of the Plot and Sub-plot | 第16-17页 |
| ·Modern People's Quest for the Past | 第17-31页 |
| ·The Living Past as a Stimulus to the Present | 第17-23页 |
| ·Following the Path of the Past | 第23-26页 |
| ·Effects of the Past on the Present | 第26-31页 |
| ·Insufficiency of Texts and Textual Scholars | 第31-36页 |
| ·The Past as Irretrievable to the Present | 第36-41页 |
| Chapter 3 Byatt's Feminist Consciousness | 第41-74页 |
| ·Juxtaposition of Three Sets of Female Characters | 第41-43页 |
| ·Independent Women in the Male-dominated World | 第43-59页 |
| ·A Dilemma of Enclosed Space | 第43-47页 |
| ·Love as a Force of Destruction | 第47-49页 |
| ·Outside Gaze upon the Female | 第49-53页 |
| ·Love as a Promise of Regeneration | 第53-59页 |
| ·Women behind Men | 第59-66页 |
| ·Friendship or Sisterhood to Women | 第66-71页 |
| ·Breakage of the Myth of Marriage to Women | 第71-74页 |
| Chapter 4 Conclusion | 第74-79页 |
| Works Cited | 第79-82页 |
| 攻读硕士学位学位期间发表的论文和取得的科研成果 | 第82页 |
