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Replacing the self in cardinal Newman's Apologia.(Father Newman)(Apologia pro Vita Sua)

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From: Biography
Date: 20040922
Author:Regard, Frederic

Although Newman's memoir is only one of many Victorian autobiographies, a "genre" that has received much critical attention (Amigoni, Victorian; Newey and Shaw), one should remember the specific intellectual, even metaphysical, context in which the Apologia was published. In the January 1864 issue of Macmillan's Magazine, the reformer novelist Charles Kingsley, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge since 1860, wrote a review of the seventh and eighth volumes of J. A. Froude's History of England (published in twelve volumes, between 1858 and 1870), in which he referred to ...

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