| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Abstract | 第10-13页 |
| Abbreviations | 第14-16页 |
| Introduction | 第16-34页 |
| I. The Clarification of the Subject | 第18-23页 |
| II. A Survey of English and Chinese Scholarship on Byatt | 第23-30页 |
| III. The Argument and Organization of the Dissertation | 第30-34页 |
| Chapter One The Textualized History in The Virgin in the Garden | 第34-72页 |
| I. Constructing the Historical Truth of the Early 1950s | 第37-45页 |
| II. Blurring History and Story—Emplotment in Bildungsroman | 第45-58页 |
| III. Intertextualized History: Allusions to Myths | 第58-72页 |
| Chapter Two The Therapeutic History in Possession: A Romance | 第72-108页 |
| I. Interpretation of Historical Knowledge via Imagination | 第74-82页 |
| II. Impingement of the Past on the Present | 第82-93页 |
| III. Self-Identification and Positive Transformation | 第93-108页 |
| Chapter Three The Revisionary History in Angels and Insects | 第108-144页 |
| I. Debunking the Male Perspective in“Morpho Eugenia” | 第111-127页 |
| II. Reinscribing the Female Voices in“The Conjugial Angel” | 第127-144页 |
| Conclusion | 第144-149页 |
| Bibliography | 第149-156页 |