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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	PS228.P57 F64 2008		UNAVAILABLE

Author	Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-
Title	Bracing accounts : the literature and culture of polio in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.
OCLC	220858727
ISBN	9780838641736 (alk. paper)
	0838641733 (alk. paper)
Publisher	Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2008]
	�2008
Description	223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
	Poliomyelitis in literature.
	Poliomyelitis -- United States -- History.
	Literature and medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.
Contents	Introduction: reality and its representations : stories from the American polio era -- "A battle of silence" : women's magazines in the postwar polio era -- "No time for tears"? : gender, fiction, and denial in polio memoirs -- "Crippled by history" : polio and the past in contemporary novels -- "Heads, you win!" : newsletters and magazines of the polio nation -- Conclusion: "The voice is still there" : some final notes on postwar polio culture.

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