Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad

In this captivating tale , Randolph Paul Runyon follows the trail of the first woman imprisoned for assisting runaway slaves and explores the mystery surrounding her life and work. In September 1844, Delia Webster took a break from her teaching responsibilities at Lexington Female Academy and accompanied Calvin Fairbank, a Methodist preacher from Oberlin College, on a Saturdary drive in the country. At the end of their trip, their passengers--Lewis Hayden and his family--remained in southern Ohio, ticketed for the Underground Railroad. Webster and Fairbank returned to a near riot and jail cells. Webster earned a sentence to the state penitentiary in Frankfort, where the warden, Newton Craig, married and a father, became enamored of her and was tempted into a compromising relationship he would come to regret. Hayden reached freedom in Boston, where he became a prominent businessman, the ringleader in the courthouse rescue of a fugitive slave, and the last link in the chain of events that led to the Harpers Ferry Raid. Webster, the focal point at which these lives intersect, remains an enigma. Was she, as one contemporary noted, A young lady of irreproachable character ? Or, as another observed, a very bold and defiant kind of woman, without a spark of feminine modesty, and, withal, very shrewd and cunning ? Runyon has doggedly pursued every historical lead to bring color and shape to the tale of these fascinating characters. In this captivating tale of a petticoat abolitionist, Delia Webster stands at the center of a riveting story about the Underground Railroad. -- Appalachian Quarterly Runyon\u27s riveting account reveals the intrigues that surrounded the at times hesitant abolitionist Delia Webster. In piecing together the complex puzzle of Ms. Webster and her cohorts, Runyon has illuminated a fascinating, little-known slice of anti-slavery history. -- Edward J. Renehan Jr. Another active and important woman has been rescued from the shadows and obscurity and given her proper place in the history not only of Kentucky but of an emotional and important era in the nation\u27s history. -- Filson Club History Quarterly This Victorian melodrama reads like a detective story. . . . Working with a difficult and complex body of evidence, Runyon has produced a fascinating and poignant story without being seduced by it. -- H-Net Reviews An exciting and dramatic reconstruction of the life and times of a pioneering American woman. -- Library Booknotes Runyon has successfully extracted this very readable narrative of antislavery activities, clarifying and tying together a mass of disjointed and contradictory primary sources. It illustrates the complexities of living within a community while subverting its laws. -- Library Journal Readers interested in the anti-slavery movement of the pre-Civil War years will find Runyon\u27s book fascinating. . . .Has all the elements of adventur, romance, and intrigue. -- Ohioana Quarterly A beautifully written telling of a passionate story. Runyon truly exemplifies the historian as detective. -- Thomas H. Appleton Jr. It has just about everything that makes for a great narrative...close escapes, scorned love, sacrifices, and vengeance. -- Random Thoughts on Historyhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/1010/thumbnail.jp

The Braided Dream: Robert Penn Warren\u27s Late Poetry

Robert Penn Warren\u27s reputation as a poet, though always considerable, has soared in the last decade, as indicated by his recent selection as America\u27s first poet laureate. The Braided Dream is one of the first book-length studies of the poetry that has led to Warren\u27s recent rise to eminence and the first to consider his final collection, Altitudes and Extensions. In a communicable, jargon-free style that will appeal to the nonacademic reader as well as the serious scholar, Randolph Paul Runyon provides a detailed and illuminating guide to a body of poetry that, despite its greatness, has until now seemed resistant to full understanding. Every poem of Warren\u27s last four sequences—Now and Then, Being Here, Rumor Verified, and Altitudes and Extensions—is given a close reading, with a precise laying-out of words, phrases, and recurring images that not only enrich the texture of the poetry but are themselves the texture. Runyon demonstrates the relevance of Freud\u27s concept of the dream work of the unconscious to a reading of this tightly interwoven poetry. He shows how Warren\u27s poems assume additional meanings by the poet\u27s very arrangement of them, deepening his thesis by arguing that poems eat poems as each reuses and reconceptualizes the imagery of its predecessor, frequently with ironic or parodic effect. Randolph Paul Runyon, the author of several articles on Warren, is professor of French at Miami University. No old New Critic has ever read poems with as sharp an eye toward the text—what it says—as Runyon. I am thoroughly convinced by the way he performs this act of very creative critical reading. —James H. Justushttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1027/thumbnail.jp

The Assault on Elisha Green

On June 8, 1883, Rev. Elisha Green was traveling by train from Maysville to Paris, Kentucky. At Millersburg, about forty students from the Millersburg Female College crowded onto the train, accompanied by their music teacher, Frank L. Bristow, and the college president, George T. Gould. Gould grabbed the reverend by the shoulder and ordered him to give up his seat. When Green refused, Bristow and Gould assaulted him until the conductor intervened and ordered the assailants to stop or he would throw them off of the train. Friends advised Green to take legal action, and he did, winning his case against his assailants in March 1884, though with only token compensation. The significance of this case lies not only in the prevailing justice of the 1800s, but also in the fact that a black man won a lawsuit against two white men. In The Assault on Elisha Green: Race and Religion in a Kentucky Community, historian Randolph Paul Runyon recounts one man\u27s pursuit of justice over violence and racism in the nineteenth century. He tells the story of Green\u27s life and follows the network of relationships that led to the event of the assault. Tracing these three men\u27s lives brings the reader from the slavery era to the eve of the First World War, from Kentucky to New Mexico, from Covington to the Kentucky River Palisades, with particular focus on Mason and Bourbon Counties. In this engagingly written tale, Runyon masterfully interweaves background information with the immediacy of the harrowing attack and its aftermath, revealing the true character of the primary actors and the racial tensions unique to a border state.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_cr/1017/thumbnail.jp

Dreams and Other Connections among Carver’s Recovered Stories

The three dreams recounted early on in “Dreams,” one of five posthumously discovered stories by Raymond Carver collected by Tess Gallagher in Call If You Need Me, resonate with events to come in the story. One of them as well seems to evoke the “burning child” dream in Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (and with it the theme, pervasive in Carver’s writing, of a father’s hostility to his child).  More strangely, the events and dreams of “Dreams” also appear to resonate with events in other stories in the collection, especially the immediately preceding story “What Would You Like to See?” and the immediately following “Vandals.” In this way, the connections between dreams and events in “Dreams” parallels the connections between the stories. Such echoes are a persistent feature of Carver’s writing, particularly evident in his poetic collection Ultramarine

Dreams and Other Connections among Carver’s Recovered Stories

The three dreams recounted early on in “Dreams,” one of five posthumously discovered stories by Raymond Carver collected by Tess Gallagher in Call If You Need Me, resonate with events to come in the story. One of them as well seems to evoke the “burning child” dream in Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (and with it the theme, pervasive in Carver’s writing, of a father’s hostility to his child).  More strangely, the events and dreams of “Dreams” also appear to resonate with events in other stories in the collection, especially the immediately preceding story “What Would You Like to See?” and the immediately following “Vandals.” In this way, the connections between dreams and events in “Dreams” parallels the connections between the stories. Such echoes are a persistent feature of Carver’s writing, particularly evident in his poetic collection Ultramarine

The effectiveness, acceptability and cost-effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for maltreated children and adolescents: an evidence synthesis.

BACKGROUND: Child maltreatment is a substantial social problem that affects large numbers of children and young people in the UK, resulting in a range of significant short- and long-term psychosocial problems. OBJECTIVES: To synthesise evidence of the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of interventions addressing the adverse consequences of child maltreatment. STUDY DESIGN: For effectiveness, we included any controlled study. Other study designs were considered for economic decision modelling. For acceptability, we included any study that asked participants for their views. PARTICIPANTS: Children and young people up to 24 years 11 months, who had experienced maltreatment before the age of 17 years 11 months. INTERVENTIONS: Any psychosocial intervention provided in any setting aiming to address the consequences of maltreatment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Psychological distress [particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety, and self-harm], behaviour, social functioning, quality of life and acceptability. METHODS: Young Persons and Professional Advisory Groups guided the project, which was conducted in accordance with Cochrane Collaboration and NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination guidance. Departures from the published protocol were recorded and explained. Meta-analyses and cost-effectiveness analyses of available data were undertaken where possible. RESULTS: We identified 198 effectiveness studies (including 62 randomised trials); six economic evaluations (five using trial data and one decision-analytic model); and 73 studies investigating treatment acceptability. Pooled data on cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for sexual abuse suggested post-treatment reductions in PTSD [standardised mean difference (SMD) -0.44 (95% CI -4.43 to -1.53)], depression [mean difference -2.83 (95% CI -4.53 to -1.13)] and anxiety [SMD -0.23 (95% CI -0.03 to -0.42)]. No differences were observed for post-treatment sexualised behaviour, externalising behaviour, behaviour management skills of parents, or parental support to the child. Findings from attachment-focused interventions suggested improvements in secure attachment [odds ratio 0.14 (95% CI 0.03 to 0.70)] and reductions in disorganised behaviour [SMD 0.23 (95% CI 0.13 to 0.42)], but no differences in avoidant attachment or externalising behaviour. Few studies addressed the role of caregivers, or the impact of the therapist-child relationship. Economic evaluations suffered methodological limitations and provided conflicting results. As a result, decision-analytic modelling was not possible, but cost-effectiveness analysis using effectiveness data from meta-analyses was undertaken for the most promising intervention: CBT for sexual abuse. Analyses of the cost-effectiveness of CBT were limited by the lack of cost data beyond the cost of CBT itself. CONCLUSIONS: It is not possible to draw firm conclusions about which interventions are effective for children with different maltreatment profiles, which are of no benefit or are harmful, and which factors encourage people to seek therapy, accept the offer of therapy and actively engage with therapy. Little is known about the cost-effectiveness of alternative interventions. LIMITATIONS: Studies were largely conducted outside the UK. The heterogeneity of outcomes and measures seriously impacted on the ability to conduct meta-analyses. FUTURE WORK: Studies are needed that assess the effectiveness of interventions within a UK context, which address the wider effects of maltreatment, as well as specific clinical outcomes. STUDY REGISTRATION: This study is registered as PROSPERO CRD42013003889. FUNDING: The National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme

Randoph Paul Runyon (trad.), La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse. An Illustrated and Annotated Translation, edited and translated by -, Jefferson (North Carolina) and London, McFarland & C°, 2009

Runyon Randolph Paul. Randoph Paul Runyon (trad.), La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse. An Illustrated and Annotated Translation, edited and translated by -, Jefferson (North Carolina) and London, McFarland & C°, 2009. In: Le Fablier. Revue des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine, n°20, 2009. La Fontaine et quelques anciens. pp. 105-106

Randoph Paul Runyon (trad.), La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse. An Illustrated and Annotated Translation, edited and translated by -, Jefferson (North Carolina) and London, McFarland & C°, 2009

Runyon Randolph Paul. Randoph Paul Runyon (trad.), La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse. An Illustrated and Annotated Translation, edited and translated by -, Jefferson (North Carolina) and London, McFarland & C°, 2009. In: Le Fablier. Revue des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine, n°20, 2009. La Fontaine et quelques anciens. pp. 105-106

Intratextual Baudelaire: the sequential fabric of the Fleurs du mal and Spleen de Paris

(print) 282 p. ; 24 cm.The fabric of the first edition : the Fleurs of 1857 -- The sequence rebuilt : the Fleurs of 1861 -- The "serpent tout entier" : Le spleen de ParisItem embargoed for five year