Introduction 1
1 Literature Review 2
1.1 Woolf Studies Abroad 3
1.2 Woolf Studies in China 9
2 Research.Argument 13
3 Research Purpose,Scope and Methodology 17
Chapter One Virginia Woolf's View of History and Historiography 23
1 Woolf's View of History 24
2 Woolf's View of Historiography 33
Chapter Two Historical Factuality in Woolf's Real World 43
1 The Historical Factuality of Family Members 44
1.1 Leslie Stephen 46
1.2 Julia Stephen 54
1.3 Siblings 59
2 The Historical Factuality of Social Movements 62
2.1 Feminism 63
2.2 Lesbianism 69
2.3 Class Conflict 73
3 The Historical Factuality of Imperial Crises 77
3.1 Colonial Independence 79
3.2 Destruction of Wars 84
Chapter Three Historiography in Woolf's Novels 90
1 The Historiography of Family Members in To the Lighthouse 91
1.1 Mr.Ramsay 94
1.2 Mrs.Ramsay 98
1.3 Lily Briscoe and Others 103
2 The Historiography of Social Movements in Mrs.Dalloway 107
2.1 The Story of Clarissa as a Feminist 109
2.2 The Stories of Sally Seton and Clarissa,Elizabeth and Doris Kilman as Lesbians 115
2.3 The Story of Septimus and Bradshaw as the Oppressed and the Oppressor 123
3 The Historiography of Imperial Crises in The Years 129
3.1 Colonial Independence Witnessed by the Pargiters 131
3.2 Destruction of the First World War Represented by German Air Raids 136
Chapter Four Woolf's Political Intention of Historiography 141
1 Speaking the Unspeakable 143
1.1 Cultural Taboos 145
1.2 Government Censorship 152
2 Representing the Powers of Subversion and Containment in Her Times 158
2.1 Subversion and Containment of Family Patriarchy 163
2.2 Subversion and Containment of Social Conventions 174
2.3 Subversion and Containment of British Imperialism 188
Conclusion 200
Works Cited 206
中文参考文献 221
Acknowledgements 227