Join us in welcoming Maud Casey as she discusses City of Incurable Women with guest, author Emily Mitchell.
About City of Incurable Women :
“Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?” wrote Jacques Lacan. 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. 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 Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male colleagues.
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Maud Casey is the author of five works of fiction, most recently City of Incurable Women (Bellevue Literary Press); and a nonfiction book, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions (Graywolf). She teaches at the University of Maryland and lives in Washington, D.C.
Emily Mitchell is the author of a novel, The Last Summer of the World (Norton, 2007), and a collection of short stories, Viral (Norton, 2015). Her short fiction has appeared in Harpers’, Ploughshares, The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, New Statesman (UK) and Guernica. She has received fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She serves as fiction editor of New England Review and teaches in the MFA program at University of Maryland.
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