The Resource 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
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
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 287 p.
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781594201608
- Label
- A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
- Title
- A summer of hummingbirds
- Title remainder
- love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
- Statement of responsibility
- Christopher Benfey
- Subject
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- Florida -- In art
- Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation
- United States -- History -- 1865-1898
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1954-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Benfey, Christopher E. G.
- Dewey number
- 811/.4
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS1541.Z5
- LC item number
- B46 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dickinson, Emily
- Twain, Mark
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Heade, Martin Johnson
- Women and literature
- Literature and society
- Literature and history
- Florida
- United States
- Label
- 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
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-277) and index
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn170203648
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 287 p.
- Isbn
- 9781594201608
- Lccn
- 2007036512
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o170203648
- (OCoLC)170203648
- Label
- 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
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-277) and index
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn170203648
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 287 p.
- Isbn
- 9781594201608
- Lccn
- 2007036512
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o170203648
- (OCoLC)170203648
Subject
- Florida -- In art
- Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation
- United States -- History -- 1865-1898
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation
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