{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-case-study-9780719099434","title":"A history of the case study","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting with Central Europe and concluding with the United States of America, \u003cem\u003eA history of the case study\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the genre as inseparable from the foundation of sexology and psychoanalysis and integral to the history of European literature. It examines the nineteenth- and twentieth-century pioneers of the case study who sought answers to the mysteries of sexual identity and shaped the way we think about sexual modernity. These pioneers include members of professional elites (psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and jurists) and creative writers, writing for newly emerging sexual publics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere previous accounts of the case study have approached the history of the genre from a single disciplinary perspective, this book stands out for its interdisciplinary approach, well-suited to negotiating the ambivalent contexts of modernity. It focuses on key formative moments and locations in the genre's past where the conventions of the case study were co\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.’\u003cbr\u003eJanet Weston, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Social History of Medicine, vol 33, no 3, August 2018\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBirgit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Lang,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e J\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eoy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Damousi and Alison Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1     The shifting case of masochism: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eV\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eenus im Pelz \u003c\/i\u003e(1870)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBirgit \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2     Fin-de-siècle investigations of the ‘creative genius’ in psychiatry and psychoanalysis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBirgit \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3     ‘Writing back’: literary satire and Oskar Panizza’s \u003ci\u003ePsichopatia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e criminalis (1898)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBirgit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Lang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4     Erich Wulffen and the case of the criminal\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBirgit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Lang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5     Alfred Döblin’s literary cases about women and crime in Weimar Germany\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlison Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6     Viola Bernard and the case study of race in post-war America\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eoy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Damousi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBirgit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Lang,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e J\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eoy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Damousi and Alison Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelect bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884294910295,"sku":"9780719099434","price":113.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-the-case-study-9780719099434","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}