| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-16页 |
| Chapter One Self-reflexivity | 第16-26页 |
| A Self-conscious narrators | 第16-20页 |
| B Self-consciousness about the fictionalization | 第20-26页 |
| Chapter Two The Employment of Intertextuality | 第26-37页 |
| A Reference to Ebenezer Cooke and his satiric poem | 第26-30页 |
| B Reference to some notable historical events | 第30-33页 |
| C Reference to some literary works | 第33-37页 |
| Chapter Three Metafictional Themes | 第37-47页 |
| A The problematic relationship between reality and imagination | 第37-42页 |
| B The overlapping of history and fiction | 第42-47页 |
| Conclusion | 第47-50页 |
| Notes | 第50-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-55页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第55-56页 |
| Academic Achievements | 第56页 |
