Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi, Alison Lewis

A history of the case study

Sexology, psychoanalysis, literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The case study is a modern genre that has not yet outgrown its original purpose. This collection tells the story of the genre as inseparable from the foundation of sexology and psychoanalysis, and integral to the history of European literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780719099434
• ISBN-10: 0719099439
• Artikelnr.: 47107412

Autorenporträt

Birgit Lang is Associate Professor of German at The University of Melbourne Joy Damousi is ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow and Professor of History at The University of Melbourne Alison Lewis is Professor of German at The University of Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis 1
The shifting case of masochism: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus im Pelz
(1870) Birgit Lang 2 Fin-de-siècle investigations of the 'creative genius'
in psychiatry and psychoanalysis Birgit Lang 3 'Writing back': literary
satire and Oskar Panizza's Psichopatia criminalis (1898) Birgit Lang 4
Erich Wulffen and the case of the criminal Birgit Lang 5 Alfred Döblin's
literary cases about women and crime in Weimar Germany Alison Lewis 6 Viola
Bernard and the case study of race in post-war America Joy Damousi
Conclusion Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis Select bibliography
Index