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Prologue: Advertisements for Myself. Part I: The First English Individualist:. 1. Narrative Subjects: Individualism, Autobiography, Authority. 2. A Novel Self–Identity: The Performance of Individual Authority in James Lackington's Memoirs. Part II: Early Ancestors: The Sacred:. 3. Christian "Experience": or, The Discourse of Life and Death. 4. Writing on the Heart: Preserving Experience in First–Person Discourse. 5. A Press of Witnesses: The Impact of Print. Part III: Immediate Precursors – the Profane:. 6. True Confessions: John Dunton and the Subject of Repentance. 7. The Trump of Fame: Self–Identified Heroes and Heroines. Epilogue: 'The Author ... Our Hero'. Notes. References. Index.