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A WILD BEAST CAUGHT BY DR. WISEMAN: THE RHETORICAL PROBLEM OF CARDINAL WISEMAN IN CARDINAL NEWMAN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

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From: Renascence
Date: 20070701
Author:Heady, Chene

IN his critically renowned autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864), John Henry Newman openly abandons the fiction that autobiography is a private act, a solitary expression of the soul. The Apologia is a flamboyantly intertextual autobiography; it is written in response to hos tile contemporary accounts of Newman's life and work (many of which it directly cites), and attempts to refute these accounts by means of ample quotations from Newman's letters and published writings. This dynamic is most transparent in the case of the broad church Anglican clergyman Charles Kingsley, whose attack on ...

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