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001 2007036512
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008 070905s2008 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781594201608
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050 00 $aPS1541.Z5$bB46 2008
082 00 $a811/.4$222
100 1 $aBenfey, Christopher E. G.,$d1954-
245 12 $aA summer of hummingbirds :$blove, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade /$cChristopher Benfey.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2008.
300 $axv, 287 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
520 $aA 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-277) and index.
505 0 $aA 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.
600 10 $aDickinson, Emily,$d1830-1886$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aTwain, Mark,$d1835-1910$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aStowe, Harriet Beecher,$d1811-1896$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aHeade, Martin Johnson,$d1819-1904$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and history$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aFlorida$vIn art.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1865-1898.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0726/2007036512.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007036512-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007036512-d.html