晚清讲史小说的繁荣，除受传统历史演义影响之外，时代需求是其发展的重要因素。百日维新失败后，革命思潮日渐占据社会主流。借用“革命”的视野去探讨，能够更深刻地认识晚清讲史小说的发展与流变。论文第一章，解读晚清讲史小说的新变过程。关注时局，是晚清讲史小说的重要特色。梁启超掀起“小说界革命”后，晚清讲史小说在价值取向与主题内容两个方面都产生了影响深远的变革。第二章，考察革命主题是如何进入讲史小说领域。从思想源流来看，革命主题进入讲史小说创作领域，有着传统思想和西方现代思想的重叠交错，是异常复杂的“众声喧哗”现象。第三章，以《洪秀全演义》为代表，考察“太平天国”题材在建构民族革命话语中的重要作用。传统的“尊王攘夷”观念，在西方种族主义、民族主义观念影响下，积极参与建构民族革命话语。第四章，以《大马扁》为代表，考察“戊戌变法”题材如何参与政治革命话语建构的历程。维新变法领袖康有为文学形象的出现，背后蕴含着丰富的政治革命话语。从历史中寻求革命的合法性，是革命讲史小说的着力点。本论文着眼于“革命”，这抓住了晚清讲史小说特定时期的重要特色。从晚清讲史小说文本中勾勒时人对革命的解读，探讨革命主题与历史题材的互动，是本论文写作的目的。

Besides the influence of the traditional historical novels, the demand for the times is a significant factor in the flourish of the historical novels in the Late Qing era. After the failure of the Hundred Days Reform (1898), the revolutionary thoughts gradually became the mainstream in the society. Therefore, from the view of revolution, the development and changes of the historical novels in the Late Qing era will be understood more profoundly.The first chapter of this paper centers on the new changes of the historical novels in the Late Qing era. Focusing on the current political situation, that is the main feature of these novels. After the Revolution in Novels brought by Liang Qichao, far-reaching changes took place in the value orientation, theme and content of these historical novels.The second chapter deals with how the revolution became the theme of the historical novels. Regarding the source of thoughts, the interlacement of Chinese traditional thoughts and modern western thoughts played a role while the revolution turning into the theme of the historical novels which was an extraordinarily complicated phenomenon that could be called Heteroglossia.The third chapter focuses on how the subject matter of “Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement” played an important part in the construction of national revolution discourse, by analyzing the Romance of Hong Xiuquan. Under the influence of racialism and nationalism from the west, the traditional concept of “to revere the emperor and to expel the barbarians” participated in the construction of national revolution discourse actively.The fourth chapter discusses how the subject matter of “the Hundred Days Reform (1898)”was concerned with the construction of political revolution discourse, through analyzing the novel Da Ma Bian. Kang Youwei, the leader of the Hundred Days Reform, was described as different kinds of person in different historical novels, which contains lots of political revolution discourse.Searching for the legitimacy of the revolution, that is the main point of the revolutionary historical novels. This paper focuses on “revolution”, which seizes the significant feature of the historical novels in the Late Qing era. By doing research on the historical novels in the Late Qing era, to draw the outline of the revolution which was contained in these novels and imagined (or understood) by people living in that certain history era, that is the aim of this paper.