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001 2008014064
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008 080331s2008 njua b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPS228.P57$bF64 2008
082 00 $a810.9/3561$222
100 1 $aFoertsch, Jacqueline,$d1964-
245 10 $aBracing accounts :$bthe literature and culture of polio in postwar America /$cJacqueline Foertsch.
260 $aMadison :$bFairleigh Dickinson University Press,$cc2008.
300 $a223 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPoliomyelitis$xPatients$zUnited States$xBiography$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPoliomyelitis in literature.
650 0 $aPoliomyelitis$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aLiterature and medicine$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.