City Of Incurable Women Maud Casey by Maud Casey 9781942658900, 1942658907, 2021001708 instant download after payment.

“City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily & psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, & haunting lyrical beauty.” — Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend & What Are You Going Through

In a fusion of fact & fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored.

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“Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?” wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history’s ghosts, marginalized & dispossessed due to their gender & class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, flesh-and-blood people with stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs & medical documents both authentic & invented, poignantly restore the humanity to the nineteenth-century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris’s Salpêtrière hospital & reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot & his male colleagues.   

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Maud Casey is the author of four novels, The Shape of Things to Come, Genealogy, The Man Who Walked Away, City of Incurable Women; a collection of stories, Drastic; & a book of nonfiction, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions. She is an Associate Professor of English & teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland. She also teaches in the low-residency MFA Program at Warren Wilson & was a faculty member at the Breadloaf Writers Conference in 2009.   

She has received the Italo Calvino Prize (2008), the St. Francis College Literary Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2008-2009 DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Fellowship, & international fellowships from the Fundacion Valparaiso & the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers…