@article{327843,
      recid = {327843},
      author = {Benfey, Christopher E. G.,},
      title = {A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the  intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet  Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade /},
      publisher = {Penguin Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xv, 287 p. :},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/327843},
}