| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract in English | 第5-6页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-18页 |
| 1.1 Thomas Hardy: A Writer of Transitional Historical Period | 第9-12页 |
| 1.2 Previous Study on Tess of the D’Urbervilles | 第12-16页 |
| 1.2.1 Literature Review at Home | 第12-15页 |
| 1.2.2 Literature Review Abroad | 第15-16页 |
| 1.3 Significance of this Study | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter 2 A Brief Survey of New Historicism | 第18-23页 |
| 2.1 Theoretical Background - the Relationship between Literature and History | 第18-19页 |
| 2.2 The Historicity of Texts and the Textuality of History | 第19-21页 |
| 2.3 Subversion and Containment: a Historical Power Struggle | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter 3 Tess of the D’Urbervilles under the Historicity of Texts | 第23-33页 |
| 3.1 Social Factors of Victorian Period | 第23-27页 |
| 3.1.1 Social and Economic Development | 第23-24页 |
| 3.1.2 The Changes in Science and Ideas | 第24-25页 |
| 3.1.3 Cultural Prosperity | 第25-26页 |
| 3.1.4 The Changes of Women’s Social Status | 第26-27页 |
| 3.2 Hardy’s Individual Experience | 第27-31页 |
| 3.2.1 New Ideas Prevailed during Hardy’s Time | 第27-28页 |
| 3.2.2 Religious Factors | 第28-31页 |
| 3.2.3 Real Prototype | 第31页 |
| 3.3 The Novel as a Text for the Construction of the History | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter 4 Tess of the D’Urbervilles under the Textuality of History | 第33-42页 |
| 4.1 The Historical Representation of Southwest England | 第33-38页 |
| 4.1.1 Women Question in Southwest England | 第34-36页 |
| 4.1.2 Capitalist Law in Southwest England | 第36-38页 |
| 4.2 Subjective Histories from the Perspective of the Writer | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter 5 Political Function of Literature：Subversion and Containment of Power | 第42-50页 |
| 5.1 Tess’s Fate: a Subversion to Christian Civilization | 第42-46页 |
| 5.2 Tess’s Containment by Christian Civilization | 第46-50页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-55页 |
| Papers Published during the Study for M. A. Degree | 第55-56页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第56-57页 |
