A History of the Case Study : Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature /

A History of the Case Study : Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature /

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This volume tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and the life sciences. A History of the Case Study takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siecle Centra...

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Main Authors: Lang, Birgit (Author), Lewis, Alison (Author), Damousi, Joy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester, Michigan : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Case method.
HISTORY > General.
History.
Humanities.
Methode des cas > Histoire.
Case method > History.
Études de cas.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The shifting case of masochism: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus im Pelz (1870) / Birgit Lang
  • 2. Fin de siecle 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.

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