In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century Women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria--and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men.
Francis College Literary Prize, she teaches at the University of Maryland..
A Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the St.
Maud Casey is the author of five books of fiction, including The Man Who Walked Away , and a work of nonfiction, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions .
These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and invented, poignantly restore the humanity to the nineteenth-century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris\'s Salp�tri�re hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male colleagues.
Long history\'s ghosts, marginalized and dispossessed due to their gender and class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, flesh-and-blood people with stories to tell. -- Sigrid Nunez , author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through Where are the hysterics, those magnificent Women of former times? wrote Jacques Lacan.
It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty.
In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century Women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria--and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men
