Acknowledgements
声明
Abstract
摘要
Contents
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Hilary Mantel and Her Wolf Hall
1.2 Critical Responses of Wolf Hall
1.3 New Historicist Theory about Literature
1.4 Significance of This Thesis
Chapter Two Textuality of History:Figures in History and in Wolf Hall
2.1 Overall Recreation of Thomas Cromwell
2.1.1 Thomas Cromwell in Historians’ Eyes
2.2.2 Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall
2.2 Detailed Depiction of Other Characters
2.2.1 Former Cardinal Wolsey
2.2.2 Henry Ⅷ
Chapter Three Historicity of Text:Interaction of Social Discourses in Wolf Hall
3.1 Religious Purge and Martyrs
3.2 More’s Cruelty and Doom
3.3 Cromwell’s Forge and Political Struggle
Chapter Four Mantel’s Rhetorical Devices of History Recasting
4.1 Metaphor
4.2 Empathetic Environment Descriptions
4.3 Symbolic Details
Chapter Five Conclusion
Bibliography
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