The perfect fence : untangling the meanings of barbed wire / Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott ; foreword by Sterling Evans.
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TextSeries: Connecting the greater west seriesPublisher: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xxiv, 272 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781623495831
- 1623495830
- West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890
- Wire fencing -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Barbed wire -- History -- 19th century
- Metaphor in literature
- American fiction -- 19th century -- Themes, motives
- États-Unis (Ouest) -- Histoire -- 1860-1890
- Grillages (Clôtures) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Barbelé -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Métaphore dans la littérature
- Roman américain -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- American fiction -- Themes, motives
- Barbed wire
- Manners and customs
- Metaphor in literature
- Wire fencing
- United States
- West United States
- 1800-1899
- 978/.02 23
- F594 .B464 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Constructing the meaning of barbed wire in late nineteenth-century America -- "Infernal machines": debating the meaning of barbed wire fences in the media -- "Secure and safe alike": legislative challenges and inventive responses -- "The perfect fence": selling barbed wire -- The barbed wire motif in literature -- "Don't fence me in": barbed wire in the western -- "Intimate fences": barbed wire in the New West -- "The thorny fence": reifying the religious metaphor -- "I helped him build his own fences": cutting the wire, cutting the lies.
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