BOOKS by Christopher E G Benfey

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1	The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan more books like this by Christopher E G Benfey add to wishlist A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable more books like this by Christopher E G Benfey add to wishlist Edgar Degas traveled to New Orleans in 1872, arriving at a key moment in the cultural history of this most exotic of American cities: the decisive period of Reconstruction following the agony of the Civil War. What was it about this war-torn, diverse, and conflicted city that elicited from Degas some of his finest paintings? This fascinating book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II: The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944 more books like this by Christopher E G Benfey (Editor), Karen Remmler (Editor) add to wishlist Sixty years ago, at the height of World War II, an extraordinary series of gatherings took place at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts. During the summers of 1942-1944, leading European figures in the arts and sciences met at the college with their American counterparts for urgent conversations about the future of human civilization in ... see all copies from $10.43! new only from $13.14! \| signed copies
4	Degas in New Orleans: Encounters Creole World of Kate Chopin more books like this by Christopher E G Benfey add to wishlist Edgar Degas travelled from Paris to New Orleans during the fall of 1872. He arrived at a key moment in the cultural history of the city. This text provides art criticism and explores the historical events of the time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South more books like this by Christopher E G Benfey add to wishlist One of the premier critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his incisive, probing essays appearing in such magazines as "The New York Review of Books", "The New Republic", and "The Times Literary Supplement", which together have helped to re-imagine the American literary canon. In "American Audacity", ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Dickinsons of Amherst more books like this by Jerome Liebling (Photographer), Christopher E G Benfey, Polly Longsworth add to wishlist The heart of this book are the 100 plus new color photos that Liebling took at the Dickinson residence of Emily and her family. They expand the previous notion of her as a recluse and show a family involved with life and activity. 138 photos. see all copies from $5.41! new only from $18.58! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke more books like this by Ms. Marianne Doezema (Editor), Christopher E G Benfey (Foreword by), Susan Danly add to wishlist see all copies from $5.95! new only from $20.54! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The double life of Stephen Crane more books like this by Christopher E. G. Benfey add to wishlist The American novelist-journalist Stephen Crane was born in 1871, six years after the war he memorialized in his acclaimed "The Red Badge of Courage", and died of tuberculosis at the age of 28. Recounting Crane's brief life, this book identifies a curious pattern: Crane tried to live what he had already written. Barely 22 when he wrote his major ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
9	The Double Life of Stephen Crane: A Biography more books like this by Christopher E G Benfey add to wishlist The first reassessment in over 25 years of one of the most brilliant and fascinating figures in American literature--the novelist-journalist who was born in 1871, six years after the end of the war he memorialized in his universally acclaimed The Red Badge of Courage, and who died of tuberculosis at 28. 26 illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
10	Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet more books like this by Christopher E G Benfey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.52! \| first editions
11	The World in a Frame more books like this by Emily Dickinson, Christopher E G Benfey add to wishlist For this unusual "artist's book", Will Barnet has created 24 original drawings to accompany some of his favorite poems by Emily Dickinson. see all copies from $10.75! signed copies \| first editions
12	Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others more books like this by Christopher E Benfrey, Christopher E G Benfey add to wishlist The vivid story of a tightly knit group of travelers--connoisseurs, collectors, scientists--who dedicated themselves to exploring and preserving what they referred to as "Old Japan" and Old Japan's lasting influence on the culture of Gilded Age America. After the Civil War, the United States--as cultural historian and critic Christopher Benfey ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $165.08!

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