| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| 中文前言 | 第9-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-21页 |
| ·Byatt and Possession | 第14-15页 |
| ·Accessibility of history | 第15-18页 |
| ·Previous studies on Possession | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter 2 The writer’s fictionalization of new historicist assumptions on history | 第21-43页 |
| ·A fragmented textual history | 第22-32页 |
| ·Absence of closure | 第22-25页 |
| ·Collage and intertextuality | 第25-28页 |
| ·Multiplicity of perspectives | 第28-29页 |
| ·Marginalization of events and voices | 第29-31页 |
| ·Subjectivity of historicization | 第31-32页 |
| ·Misguided historical interpretations | 第32-43页 |
| ·Over-intellectualization of contemporary scholars | 第34-37页 |
| ·Misinterpretations by radical feminists | 第37-40页 |
| ·Misinterpretations by biographers | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter 3 The writer’s fictionalization of old historicist assumptions on history | 第43-57页 |
| ·Pursuit of “innocent”completion of history | 第43-50页 |
| ·Coherence and closure in Possession | 第44-45页 |
| ·Choice of the genre of romance | 第45-47页 |
| ·Employment of an omniscient narrator | 第47-50页 |
| ·Pursuit of “innocent”historical interpretations | 第50-57页 |
| ·Reconciliation between theories | 第50-51页 |
| ·Recovery of primordial forces in readers | 第51-55页 |
| ·Re-establishment of autonomy for readers | 第55-57页 |
| Chapter 4 An unfinalized dialogue | 第57-62页 |
| ·Polyphonic features of Possession | 第57-58页 |
| ·A dialogue on the knowability of history | 第58-62页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第62-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-69页 |
