| Acknowledements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction of E·L·Doctorow and Ragtime | 第12-18页 |
| ·E·L·Doctorow 's Life and Literary Career | 第12-14页 |
| ·Introduction of Ragtime | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Research on Doctorow and His Novels in China and Abroad | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter 2 Development of New Historicism | 第18-24页 |
| ·The Rise of New Historicism | 第18-20页 |
| ·The Basic Theories of New Historicism | 第20-24页 |
| Chapter 3 The Historicity of Doctorow's Text | 第24-45页 |
| ·L.Montrose's The Historicity of Texts | 第24-25页 |
| ·Ragtime --Doctorow's New Historical Text | 第25-32页 |
| ·Doctorow-"A Radical Jewish Humanist" | 第25-28页 |
| ·The Postmodern Fictional Texts in Ragtime-A Plural Text | 第28-32页 |
| ·Doctorow's Strategies in Constructing His Text | 第32-40页 |
| ·Doctorow's Narrative Technique: Repetition and Coincidence | 第32-35页 |
| ·The Employment of Ragtime Music | 第35-40页 |
| ·Doctorow's Texts Impelling the Consciousness of Our Time | 第40-45页 |
| ·The Consciousness of Our History | 第41-43页 |
| ·The Consciousness of Our Morality | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter 4 The Textuality of Doctorow's History | 第45-65页 |
| ·The Textuality of History | 第45-47页 |
| ·Louis A. Montrose: "The Textuality of Histories" | 第45页 |
| ·History in Traditional Historical Text and in Postmodernist Fiction | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Fictional History in Doctorow's Ragtime | 第47-56页 |
| ·Doctorow's History: "There is No History except As It is Composed" | 第47-50页 |
| ·From History to Fiction and From Fiction to History | 第50-56页 |
| ·Doctorow's Strategies in Constructing His History in Ragtime | 第56-61页 |
| ·Intertextuality | 第56-59页 |
| ·Replictaion: "Replicate Itself Endlessly" | 第59-61页 |
| ·The Foreboding and Coincidence of New Historicism | 第61-65页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第65-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-70页 |
| Papers Published | 第70页 |
