"États-Unis" . . "Littérature et société États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle." . . "Littérature et histoire États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary." . . . . . . . . "Art"@en . "Art" . . . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en . "Criticism, interpretation, etc" . "The country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life At the close of the Civil War, the lives of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade intersected in an intricate map of friendship, family, and romance that marked a milestone in the development of American art and literature. Using the image of a flitting hummingbird as a metaphor for the gossamer strands that connect these larger-than-life personalities, Christopher Benfey re-creates the summer of 1882, the summer when Mabel Louise Todd-the protEgE to the painter Heade-confesses her love for Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, and the players suddenly find themselves caught in the crossfire between the Calvinist world of decorum, restraint, and judgment and a new, unconventional world in which nature prevails and freedom is all."@en . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "A summer of hummingbirds love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of emily dickinson, mark twain, harriet beecher stowe, and martin johnson heade"@en . . . "A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade"@en . "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 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."@en . "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." . . "A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Meade" . . . . "History" . "History"@en . . . . . . . . . . "A summer of hummingbirds love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade"@en . . . . . . . "United States" . . "Florida" . . "1800 - 1899" . . "Literatur USA Gesellschaft Geschichte 19. Jh." . . "Women and literature United States History 19th century." . . "Floride dans l'art." . . "Women and literature History United States 19th century." . . "Literature and history United States History 19th century." . . "Literature and society United States History 19th century." . . "Literature and society History United States 19th century." . . "Femmes et littérature États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle." . .