History of the Case Study

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

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionBirgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis1 The shifting case of masochism: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’sVenus im Pelz (1870)Birgit Lang2 Fin-de-siècle investigations of the ‘creative genius’ in psychiatry and psychoanalysisBirgit Lang3 ‘Writing back’: literary satire and Oskar Panizza’s Psichopatia criminalis (1898)Birgit Lang4 Erich Wulffen and the case of the criminalBirgit Lang5 Alfred Döblin’s literary cases about women and crime in Weimar GermanyAlison Lewis6 Viola Bernard and the case study of race in post-war AmericaJoy DamousiConclusionBirgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison LewisSelect bibliographyIndex

‘A valuable introduction to some lesser-known writers and doctors, and offers tantalising glimpses into national differences within those disciplines that use the case study, and within their historiographies. It is also a useful entry point for those interested in histories of sexology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis or criminology, but unfamiliar with the rich literary world that has surrounded and helped to shape these fields.’Janet Weston, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Social History of Medicine, vol 33, no 3, August 2018