| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 第3-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-23页 |
| 0.1 Introduction to Susan Sontag and Her Works | 第11-14页 |
| 0.2 Introduction to The Volcano Lover | 第14-16页 |
| 0.3 Literature Review | 第16-20页 |
| 0.4 Structure of the Thesis | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter One Theoretical Framework—New Historicism | 第23-31页 |
| 1.1 An Overview of New Historicism | 第23-26页 |
| 1.2 Main Concerns of New Historicism | 第26-31页 |
| 1.2.1 The Relation of Literature and History | 第26-28页 |
| 1.2.2 The Historicity of Texts and the Textuality of History | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter Two The Historicity of The Volcano Lover | 第31-47页 |
| 2.1 Reconstruction of Histories in the Eighteenth-Century Naples | 第31-36页 |
| 2.1.1 A Brief Account of the Historical Background of the Eighteenth-Century Naples | 第31-33页 |
| 2.1.2 Reconstructed Histories in the Eighteenth-Century Naples | 第33-36页 |
| 2.2 Refashioning Real Historical Characters in the Novel | 第36-43页 |
| 2.2.1 The King and the Hero: From Heroic Images to Ordinary People | 第36-38页 |
| 2.2.2 William Hamilton: From a Notorious Cuckold to an Obsessive Collector | 第38-40页 |
| 2.2.3 Emma Hamilton: From a Slut to a Beauty | 第40-43页 |
| 2.3 Eruption of Mount Vesuvius | 第43-47页 |
| 2.3.1 Natural History of Eruptions of Mount Vesuvius in the Novel | 第43-45页 |
| 2.3.2 Mount Vesuvius as a Metaphor | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Three The Textuality of History in The Volcano Lover | 第47-65页 |
| 3.1 Intertextuality with Pre-existing Texts | 第47-52页 |
| 3.2 Interaction of Fiction and History | 第52-55页 |
| 3.2.1 Efrosina Pumo as a Soothsayer | 第52-54页 |
| 3.2.2 Baron Scarpia as a Villain | 第54-55页 |
| 3.3 Sontag’s Strategies in Constructing Histories | 第55-65页 |
| 3.3.1 Entertaining Digressions | 第56-58页 |
| 3.3.2 Anecdotes | 第58-59页 |
| 3.3.3 Giving Voices to the Marginalized | 第59-65页 |
| Conclusion | 第65-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-73页 |
