The Perfect Fence : Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bennett, Lyn Ellen (Author), Abbott, Scott H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wire fencing.
Metaphor in literature.
Manners and customs.
Barbed wire.
American fiction > Themes, motives.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Metaphore dans la litterature.
Barbele > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Grillages (Clôtures) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
American fiction > 19th century > Themes, motives.
Barbed wire > History > 19th century.
Wire fencing > United States > History > 19th century.
West United States.
United States.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 1860-1890.
West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890.
West (U.S.) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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