The Sentimental Politics of Language: Ralph Waldo Emerson's and José María Sánchez's Texan Stories
In 1828, Mexican President Guadalupe Victoria assigned General Manuel de Mier y Terán to survey the Texan boundary between Mexico and the United States and to assess the situation of Anglo-American settlers in the territory. Traveling with Terán was Lieutenant José María Sánchez, whose diary of the expedition has long been recognized as an important source document for histories of the period and region. This article asserts the literary value of Sánchez’s diary for a hemispheric study of American Romanticism. In his description of landscape as spiritual experience and his emphasis on language as creative political force, Sánchez enacts the core tenets of an Emersonian Transcendental subject, an artistic sensibility at variance with the Byronic Romantic hero of Mexican and Latin American literature of the period. This article investigates the Mexican political tensions such a Romantic position evokes while exploring the inter-American potential of a hemispheric Romanticism.
THE JOURNALS AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTEBOOKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON
FOREWORD TO VOLUME XVI The Journals: 1866-1882 Chronology Symbols and Abbreviations PART ONE The Texts of the Journals LN NY ST PART TWO The Texts of the Miscellaneous Notebooks Books Large Pocket Diary 17 Pocket Diary 18 Pocket Diary 19 Pocket Diary 20 Pocket Diary 21 Pocket Diary 22 Pocket Diary 23 Pocket Diary 24 Pocket Diary 25 Pocket Diary 26 Pocket Diary 27 Pocket Diary 28 Pocket Diary 29 Pocket Diary 30 Pocket Diary 31 Appendix I Journals and Notebooks in the Harvard Edition Appendix II Author and Title Entries in Notebook Books Large Textual Notes Index
The micro-mechanical behaviour of artificially cemented sand particles under compression and shear
The mechanical behaviour of cemented sands at macro-scale has been widely studied in the past, while there is still a lack of laboratory test data for the micro-mechanical response. Therefore, a series of uniaxial compression and tangential shear tests on artificially cemented sand particles have been conducted using a microscope to observe their behaviour. First, the consistency of cemented particles with different cementing agents is discussed. Three breakage modes are proposed according to the images taken using a microscope camera. A new parameter named ‘local roundness at contact’ is introduced to emphasise the effect of contact morphology on sample strength. Moreover, the effect of bond thickness on the mechanical response of cemented particles has been investigated. Finally, the shear strength parameters of artificially cemented sand samples have been determined for two different sample diameters.