A history of the case study [electronic resource] : sexology, psychoanalysis, literature / Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi, and Alison Lewis.

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This collection 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 life sciences. It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siecle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of W...

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Main Authors: Lang, Birgit (Lecturer) (Author)
Damousi, Joy (Author)
Lewis, Alison, 1958- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2017.
Subjects:
Case method > History.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Sociology > Case studies > History.
Humanities > Case studies > History.
Sexology > Case studies.
Psychoanalysis > Case studies.
Online Access:
Books at JSTOR: Open Access: 2017 (JSTOR)
Project Muse Open Access ebooks: 2017 (Project MUSE @ John Hopkins University)
Open Research Library (ORL): 2017 (Open Research Library)
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks): 2017 (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)
DOAB Directory of Open Access Books: 2017 (Directory of Open Access Books)
Variant Title:
A History of the Case Study: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • The shifting case of masochism: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus im Pelz (1870) / Birgit Lang
  • Fin-de-siècle investigations of the 'creative genius' in psychiatry and psychoanalysis / Birgit Lang
  • 'Writing back': literary satire and Oskar Panizza's Psichopatia criminalis (1898) / Birgit Lang
  • Erich Wulffen and the case of the criminal / Birgit Lang
  • Alfred Döblin's literary cases about women and crime in Weimar Germany / Alison Lewis
  • Viola Bernard and the case study of race in post-war America / Joy Damousi
  • Conclusion / Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis.