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

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The work A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Georgetown Peabody Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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 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

Creator

• Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954-

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

Genre

• In art

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

BTCTA

Dewey number

811/.4

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

PS1541.Z5

LC item number

B46 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography