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.
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.
Summary:
Documents the interactions of many of the nation's most celebrated writers and artists during the Reconstruction Era, told through a metaphorical journey of a hummingbird that illuminates period beliefs about such topics as religion, sexuality, and family.
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