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Forever Belle is the intriguing story of a nineteenth-century socialite, Sallie Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs (1827-1896). Beautiful, charming, and kind--but also reckless and bold--she was born in Scott County, Kentucky, to a family of means beset by tragedy--early deaths, suicides, and even murders. Sallie basked in the national spotlight, appearing in newspapers as far-flung as Milwaukee and Charleston, written up for her exploits, whi...

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 interve...

Intratextual Baudelaire: The Sequential Fabric of the Fleurs du mal and Spleen de Paris by Randolph Paul Runyon provides a new and provocative answer to the question that has intrigued readers for years: did the poet arrange the Fleurs du mal in a meaningful order? Runyon believes so, but not in the way most have conceived the question. Barbey d'Aurevilly's claim that there was a "secret architecture" hidden in the Fleurs has long misled schol...

This study sheds new light on the lives of a remarkable pair who not only bore witness to key events in early American history, but had a singular impact on the lives of their friends, their students, and their community.

Montaigne's Essays are treasured for their philosophical and moral insights and the fascinating portrait they give us of the man who wrote them, but another of their undoubted delights is that they tantalize the reader, offering beneath an apparent disorder some hints of a hidden plan. After all, though the essayist kept adding new pages, except when he added the third and final book he never added a new chapter, but worked within the structur...

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He shows how Warren's poems assume additional meanings by the poet's very arrangement of them, deepening his thesis by arguing that poems eat poemsas each reuses and reconceptualizes the imagery of its predecessor, frequently with ironic or parodic effect.

This study of the short stories of Raymond Carver also takes excursions into his poetry and essays. Runyon argues that the stories are intricately linked as part of a cohesive body of work.

In this tale of a petticoat abolitionist, Delia Webster stands at the center of a story about the Underground Railroad. Randolph Paul Runyon follows the trail of the first woman imprisoned for assisting runaway slaves and explores the mystery surrounding her life and work."--BOOK JACKET.

The stubborn silence of text passed down from fathers to their sons is examined in this highly original study of Robert Penn Warren's fiction. In every case, that text-whether a letter, a poem, a handbill or a wink-refuses to disclose what the son who reads it wants to know. This recurring scene, clearly inscribed in the plot of each of the novels, gives coherence to Warren's art and at the same time writes the reader into the story. We become...

America's most eminent man of letters in his later years, and certainly one of the greatest Southern writers, Robert Penn Warren has increasingly come to be known for his poetry. Ghostly Parallels is a close examination of the heart of his poetic corpus--the eight collections published between 1935 and 1976: Thirty-Six Poems, Eleven Poems on the Same Theme, Promises, You, Emperors, and Others, Tale of Time, Incarnations, Or Else, and Can I See...

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Runyon demonstrates the intimate connectedness between each fable and the next as well as the sequential unity of each of La Fontaine's masterpieces. (Poetry)

In this rewarding study of one of the most important writers of recent decades, Randolph Paul Runyon reveals an ambitious metafiction beneath the terse style of Carver's works and places Carver squarely in the context of the minimalist debate. Runyon's reading ably demonstrates that Carver's stories, especially as they appear in his three major collections, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and Cath...