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.
By: Benfey, Christopher E. G.
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2009Description: xv, 287 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781594201608 (hbk.); 9780143115083 (pbk.).Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation | Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation | Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation | Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
| Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Florida -- In art | United States -- History -- 1865-1898DDC classification: 811.4
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.
| Item type | Current location | Shelf location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Main Collection | Taylor's Library-TU |
Floor 4, Shelf 34 , Side 2, TierNo 1, BayNo 5 |
811.4 BEN 2009 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | SLASx,05000,03,GR | 5000105464 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-277) and index.
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.