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 Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction: representing America - the Emerson legacy Joel Porte 1. Transcendentalism and its times David Robinson 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson in his family Phyllis Cole 3. The Radical Emerson? Robert Milder 4. Emerson as lecturer: man thinking, man saying R. Jackson Wilson 5. Emerson and nature Robert D. Richardson Jr 6. Essays: first series (1841) Albert J. von Frank 7. Transcendental friendship Jeffrey Steele 8. Terms for Emerson: essays, Second Series Julie Ellison 9. 'The Remembering Wine': Emerson's influence on Whitman and Dickinson Catherine Tufariello 10. Post-colonial Emerson and the erasure of Europe Robert Weisbuch 11. Metre-making arguments: Emerson's poems Saundra Morris 12. The conduct of life: Emerson's anatomy of power Michael Lopez.
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Significant improvements in body contour can be accomplished by surgical procedures having reliable, predictable results. Similar to the modern sculptor of inanimate art forms, plastic surgeons have utilized new materials and devised new techniques to achieve aesthetic improvement of the face, trunk, and extremities. The goals of the surgical sculptor are perhaps more challenging than those of the pure artistic sculptor, not only because they must result in improved appearance but also because the surgeon is limited at all times by considerations of regional anatomy, the availability of viable tissue materials, and the safety of his patient.