POLIO AND ITS AFTERMATH: The Paralysis of Culture
Marc Shell, . . Harvard Univ., $35 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-674-01315-5
Shell, a professor of English and comp lit at Harvard, is interested in polio's cultural and aesthetic impact. In his passionate, detailed account of FDR's struggle with the disease and his crusade to bring relief to fellow sufferers, Shell refutes the current wisdom that FDR's disability was hidden from the public; in fact, he argues, it was on full view before the American people. Shell mines the so-called polio school of literature to illuminate a world of suffering and survival, and presents a lengthy analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece,
Reviewed on: 03/14/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
Other - 335 pages - 978-0-674-04354-1