A chance meeting : American encounters

A chance meeting American encounters

Rachel Cohen, 1973-

Book - 2024

"Each chapter in this remarkable consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between two historical figures. In 1854, as a boy, Henry James has his daguerreotype made by Mathew Brady. We encounter Brady again as he photographs Walt Whitman and then Ulysses Grant. Meanwhile, Henry James begins a lasting friendship with William Dean Howells, and also meets Sarah Orne Jewett, who in turn is a mentor to Willa Cather... Cohen brilliantly reanimates these unforgettable pairings and those of Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz; Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein; Hart Crane and Charlie Chaplin; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston; Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore; Richard Avedon and James Baldwin; and John Cage and Marc...el Duchamp; Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell. Ultimately, Cohen reveals and long chain of friendship, rebellion and influence stretching from the moment before the Civil War through a century that had a profound effect on our own time. A Chance Meeting is an intimate and original act of biography and cultural history that makes its own contribution to the tradition about which Cohen writes."--

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Subjects
1900-1999
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Artists > United States > Biography.
Authors and artists > Biography.
Friendship > United States > History > 20th century.
Arts, American > 20th century.
Artists.
Arts, American.
Authors, American.
Authors and artists.
Friendship.
Intellectual life.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Genres
Biographies
History
Published
New York, NY : The New York Review of Books 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Rachel Cohen, 1973- (author)
Physical Description
xix, 393 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781681378107
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Introduction to the First Edition
  • 1. Henry James and Mathew Brady
  • 2. William Dean Howells and Annie Adams Fields and Walt Whitman
  • 3. Mathew Brady and Ulysses S. Grant
  • 4. William Dean Howells and Henry James
  • 5. Walt Whitman and Mathew Brady
  • 6. Mark Twain and William Dean Howells
  • 7. Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant
  • 8. W. E. B. Du Bois and William James
  • 9. Gertrude Scein and William James
  • 10. Henry James and Annie Adams Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett
  • 11. Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz
  • 12. Willa Cather and Mark Twain
  • 13. Willa Cather and Annie Adams Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett
  • 14. Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz and Gertrude Stein
  • 15. Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein
  • 16. Marcel Duchamp and Alfred Stieglitz
  • 17. Willa Cather and Edward Steichen and Katherine Anne Porter
  • 18. Alfred Stieglitz and Hart Crane
  • 19. Hart Crane and Charlie Chaplin
  • 20. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
  • 21. Beauford Delaney and W. E. B. Du Bois
  • 22. Hart Crane and Katherine Anne Porter
  • 23. Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore
  • 24. Zora Neale Hurston and Carl Van Vechten
  • 25. Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp
  • 26. Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin
  • 27. Joseph Cornell and Marianne Moore
  • 28. James Baldwin and Norman Mailer
  • 29. Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop
  • 30. John Cage and Richard Avedon
  • 31. W. E. B. Du Bois and Charlie Chaplin
  • 32. Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechren and Richard Avedon
  • 33. Richard Avedon and James Baldwin
  • 34. Marianne Moore and Norman Mailer
  • 35. John Cage and Marcel Duchamp
  • 36. Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell
  • Author's Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Credits and Permissions

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