A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mar...
A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mar...
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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Publisher
New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
Call Numbers
N811.4/17
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Language
English
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Physical content
xv, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
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Publisher
New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2008.
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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...
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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-277) and index.
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N811.4/17
Record Identifier
74VMbM7rKBWy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMbM7rKBWy
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ISBN
9781594201608
1594201609
DDC
811.4
MMS ID
991000721539702626
