Ruth apRoberts
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1919 – 2006
Who was Ruth apRoberts?
Ruth apRoberts was a Canadian scholar of Victorian and religious literature. Her work focused on 19th-century British literature as it intersected with philosophical issues and spiritual traditions.
Born as Ruth Heyer in 1919 in Vancouver, British Columbia, she received her bachelor's degree from the University of British Columbia and her master's degree from UC Berkeley. After raising her four children, she received her PhD in English from UCLA. She was the widow of Robert apRoberts, a scholar of Welsh descent who taught medieval literature at California State University in Northridge.
At the University of California in Riverside, Ruth apRoberts held the positions of Graduate Advisor and Chair of the English Department. She taught courses in Victorian literature, the Aesthetic Movement, and the Bible as literature. She held a Guggenheim Fellowship.
She was awarded the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award in 1977, and the Distinguished Emeritus Award in 1995.
She was the author of four books: The Moral Trollope, which explored the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of the novels of Anthony Trollope; Arnold and God which probed the anti-literal understandings of religion that permeate all of Matthew Arnold's poetry and social criticism; The Ancient Dialect which analyzed the writing of Thomas Carlyle in relation to the study of comparative religions; and The Biblical Web which provided a purely literary analysis of the Christian Bible and the Hebrew Torah, focusing on the resonances and influence of their language.
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- Born
- Nov 14, 1919
Vancouver - Also known as
- Ruth Heyer
- Evelyn Ruth Heyer
- Nationality
- Canada
- Education
- Master's Degree, University of California, Berkeley
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
English Studies
- Lived in
- Vancouver
(1919/11/14 - ) - California
( - 2006/03/26)
- Vancouver
- Died
- Mar 26, 2006
Riverside
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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