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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 - Hardcover
Documents the interactions of many of the nation's most celebrated writers and artists during the Reconstruction Era, in a series of portraits told through a metaphorical journey of a hummingbird that illuminates period beliefs about such topics as religion, sexuality, and family. 40,000 first printing.
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"A highly engaging and deftly written sequence of intertwined vignettes. . . . [A Summer of Hummingbirds] reads like a dream sequence, and should not be missed."
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Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He is a prolific critic and essayist who writes for The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books. He also serves as a regular art critic for the online magazine Slate. Benfey has published three books set in the American Gilded Age: The Double Life of Stephen Crane, Degas in New Orleans, and The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
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- Publication date2008
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- ISBN 13 9781594201608
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New, May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. 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, The United States Took A Deep Breath To Lick Wounds And Consider The Damage Done. A Summer Of Hummingbirds Reveals How, At That Tender Moment, The Lives Of Some Of Our Most Noted Writers, Poets, And Artists-Including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, And Martin Johnson Heade-Intersected To Make Sense Of It All. Renowned Critic Christopher Benfey Maps The Intricate Web Of Friendship, Family, And Romance That Connects These Larger Than Life Personalities To One Another, And In Doing So Discovers A Unique Moment In The Development Of American Character. In This Meticulously Researched And Creatively Imagined Work, 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. Benfey's Complex Tale Of Interconnection Comes To An Apex In Amherst, Massachusetts, During The Summer Of 1882, A Time When Loyalties Were Betrayed And Thoughts Exchanged With The Speed Of A Hummingbird's Wings. Here In The Wake Of The Very Public Henry Ward Beecher And Elizabeth Tilton Sex Scandal, Mabel Loomis Todd-The Young And Beautiful Prot?g?e To The Hummingbird Painter Martin Johnson Heade-Begins An Affair With Austin Dickinson And Leaves Her Mentor Heartbroken; Emily Dickinson Is Found In The Arms Of Her Father's Friend Judge Otis Lord, And That's Not All. As Infidelity And Lust Run Rampant, The Incendiary Ghost Of Lord Byron Is Evoked, And The Characters Of A Summer Of Hummingbirds Find Themselves Caught In The Crossfire Between The Calvinist World Of Decorum, Restraint, And Judgment And A Romantic, Unconventional World In Which Nature Prevails And Freedom Is All. Seller Inventory # 004163
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