"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…mehr
"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 Marcel 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."--
Rachel Cohen, introduction by Vijay Seshadri, with a new afterword by the author
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Chapter 1: Henry James and Mathew Brady Chapter 2: William Dean Howells and Annie Adams Fields and Walt Whitman Chapter 3: Mathew Brady and Ulysses S. Grant Chapter 4: William Dean Howells and Henry James Chapter 5: Walt Whitman and Matthew Brady Chapter 6: Mark Twain and William Dean Howells Chapter 7: Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant Chapter 8: W.E.B. Du Bois and William James Chapter 9: Gertrude Stein and William James Chapter 10: Henry James and Annie Adams Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett Chapter 11: Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz Chapter 12: Willa Cather and Mark Twain Chapter 13: Willa Cather and Annie Adams Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett Chapter 14: Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz and Gertrude Stein Chapter 15: Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein Chapter 16: Marcel Duchamp and Alfred Stieglitz Chapter 17: Willa Cather and Edward Steichen and Katherine Anne Porter Chapter 18: Alfred Stieglitz and Hart Crane Chapter 19: Hart Crane and Charlie Chaplin Chapter 20: Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston Chapter 21: Beauford Delaney and W.E.B. Du Bois Chapter 22: Hart Crane and Katherine Anne Porter Chapter 23: Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore Chapter 24: Zora Neale Hurston and Carl Van Vechten Chapter 25: Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp Chapter 26: Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin Chapter 27: Joseph Cornell and Marianne Moore Chapter 28: James Baldwin and Norman Mailer Chapter 29: Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop Chapter 30: John Cage and Richard Avedon Chapter 31: W.E.B. Du Bois and Charlie Chaplin Chapter 32: Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten and Richard Avedon Chapter 33: Richard Avedon and James Baldwin Chapter 34: Marianne Moore and Norman Mailer Chapter 35: John Cage and Marcel Duchamp Chapter 36: Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell
Chapter 1: Henry James and Mathew Brady Chapter 2: William Dean Howells and Annie Adams Fields and Walt Whitman Chapter 3: Mathew Brady and Ulysses S. Grant Chapter 4: William Dean Howells and Henry James Chapter 5: Walt Whitman and Matthew Brady Chapter 6: Mark Twain and William Dean Howells Chapter 7: Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant Chapter 8: W.E.B. Du Bois and William James Chapter 9: Gertrude Stein and William James Chapter 10: Henry James and Annie Adams Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett Chapter 11: Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz Chapter 12: Willa Cather and Mark Twain Chapter 13: Willa Cather and Annie Adams Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett Chapter 14: Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz and Gertrude Stein Chapter 15: Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein Chapter 16: Marcel Duchamp and Alfred Stieglitz Chapter 17: Willa Cather and Edward Steichen and Katherine Anne Porter Chapter 18: Alfred Stieglitz and Hart Crane Chapter 19: Hart Crane and Charlie Chaplin Chapter 20: Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston Chapter 21: Beauford Delaney and W.E.B. Du Bois Chapter 22: Hart Crane and Katherine Anne Porter Chapter 23: Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore Chapter 24: Zora Neale Hurston and Carl Van Vechten Chapter 25: Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp Chapter 26: Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin Chapter 27: Joseph Cornell and Marianne Moore Chapter 28: James Baldwin and Norman Mailer Chapter 29: Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop Chapter 30: John Cage and Richard Avedon Chapter 31: W.E.B. Du Bois and Charlie Chaplin Chapter 32: Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten and Richard Avedon Chapter 33: Richard Avedon and James Baldwin Chapter 34: Marianne Moore and Norman Mailer Chapter 35: John Cage and Marcel Duchamp Chapter 36: Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell
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