A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade /

A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
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.

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