Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-186) and index.
Contents
The birth of a season: Indian summer before 1820 -- Science and sentiment: Indian summer in nineteenth-century popular culture -- Fighting words: Native Americans and the naming of Indian summer -- Indian summer and the creation of New England -- With faith as in spring: Thoreau's Indian summer -- Emily Dickinson and Indian summer: beneath the second sun -- Coda: Indian summer in the twentieth century.
