Abstract John Dunton (1659–1732) is a bookseller and writer best known today as a tireless self-promoter whose I-centred and experimental work contributed to the development of the novel and autobiography in the eighteenth century. This article is the first full-length study of his own autobiographical record, The Life and Errors of John Dunton (1705). Dunton the showman is in plentiful evidence in this text, but he also presents another, more sober and serious-minded version of the self by following accounts of earlier stages of his life with their reformed versions. His coupling of religious-led self-examination with a commitment to literary novelty makes The Life a most unusual form of spiritual autobiography in its early stages. Yet The Life is a composite text in an even more obvious sense than this. For around half-way through the text Dunton abandons his close focus on the self for hundreds of cursory character sketches of his contemporaries, and in doing so swaps spiritual considerations for indirect comments on his own social activities and commercial concerns. This article studies these two main, ostensibly opposed, sections of The Life – its autobiographical and biographical material – and suggests points of contact between them.

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在约翰·邓顿的《约翰·邓顿的生平与错误》（1705）中重塑自我

摘要 约翰·邓顿 (John Dunton，1659-1732 年) 是一位书商和作家，如今他以不知疲倦的自我推销者而闻名，他以我为中心的实验工作为 18 世纪小说和自传的发展做出了贡献。这篇文章是对他自己的自传记录《约翰·邓顿的生平与错误》（1705 年）的第一篇完整研究。表演者邓顿（Dunton）在本文中有大量证据，但他也通过对他生命早期阶段的描述及其改良版本的描述，呈现了另一个更清醒、更严肃的自我版本。他将宗教主导的自我反省与对文学新奇的承诺相结合，使《生活》成为早期最不寻常的精神自传形式。然而，在比这更明显的意义上，《生活》是一个复合文本。大约在文本进行到一半时，邓顿放弃了对自我的密切关注，转而绘制了数百幅同时代人的粗略人物素描，并在这样做时将精神上的考虑换成了对他自己的社会活动和商业问题的间接评论。本文研究了《生活》的这两个主要的、表面上对立的部分——它的自传和传记材料——并提出了它们之间的联系点。