Apologia Pro Vita Sua: 0 (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

The present edition stresses the literary, humanistic, and religious power of the Apologia, Newman's personal development, and the progress of the Oxford Movement. Students will be able to place the Apologia in its proper intellectual context by examining it alongside other important documents from the Newman-Kingsley controversy included in this volume: correspondence: Kingsley's pamphlet, "What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?"; Newman's pamphlets "Mr. Kingsley's Mode of Disputation" and "True Mode of Meeting Mr. Kingsley"; and Newman's two Appendices of 1866. The origin of the Apologia, its contemporary reception, and its present critical fortunes are discussed in studies by Martin J. Svaglic, Walter E. Houghton, Vincent Ferrer Blehl, Lewis E. Gates, Robert A. Colby, Leonard W. Deen, and David J. DeLaura. A Bibliography is included.

David J. DeLaura is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, where until 1999 he was Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English. He previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater. His essay "Arnold and Carlyle" received the first annual award of the Modern Language Association.