Bracing accounts
Subtitle: the literature and culture of polio in postwar America
By: Jacqueline Foertsch.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780838641736
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reality and its representations; title: "A battle of silence": women's magazines in the postwar polio era; title: "No time for tears"?: gender, fiction, and denial in polio memoirs; title: "Crippled by history": polio and the past in contemporary novels; title: "Heads, you win!": newsletters and magazines of the polio nation.