Apologia Pro Vita Sua » (1st Edition)

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.

The text of the Apologia reprinted in this volume is the definitive text, embodying all of Newman's later changes, which reached its final form about 1886. Extensive notes are provided.