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Item Information   Holdings     Fiction & Biography         Library Journal Review         Publisher Weekly Review         Summary       More by this author     Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954-     Subjects     Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.     Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. -- Criticism and interpretation.     Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. -- Criticism and interpretation.     Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation.     Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Florida -- In art.     United States -- History -- 1865-1898.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954-       by title:      A summer of hummingb...         MARC Display

A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade / Christopher Benfey. by Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954- Subjects Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.   Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. -- Criticism and interpretation.   Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. -- Criticism and interpretation.   Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation.   Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Florida -- In art.   United States -- History -- 1865-1898. Publisher Info:  New York : Penguin Press, 2008. Description:  xv, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN:  9781594201608 1594201609 Contents:  I: An oblique war -- A tea rose -- The prodigal -- Beecher's pockets -- Tristes tropiques -- At the Hotel Byron -- The prisoner of Chillon -- Birds of passage -- Covert flowers, hidden nests -- Transits of Venus -- Foggy bottom -- A route of evanescence -- Florida -- Epilogue: Toward the blue peninsula. Format Book:  Summary:  A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought at the close of the Civil War. Benfey takes the seemingly arbitrary image of the hummingbird and traces its "route of evanescence" as it travels in circles to and from the creative wellsprings of the age: from the naturalist writings of abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson to the poems of his wayward pupil Emily Dickinson; into the mind of Henry Ward Beecher and within the writings and paintings of his famous sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Summer of Hummingbirds unveils how, through the art of these great thinkers, the hummingbird became the symbol of an era, an image through which they could explore their controversial (and often contradictory) ideas of nature, religion, sexuality, family, time, exoticism, and beauty.--From amazon.com. URL:  Contributor biographical information Publisher description No. of Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Marion Public Library Top Floor 811.4 BEN Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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