The Case of Literature: Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka 1501749366, 9781501749360

Table of contents :
The Case of Literature
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Making the Case around 1800
1. The Case of Werther and the Institution of Literature
2. “Observe, Write!”: Histories of Observation and the Psychological Novel Anton Reiser
3. Hot and Cold: History, Casuistry, and Literature in Schiller and Kleist
4. Conclusion: Literary Reference and Authorship
Part II. The Case between Psychiatry, Law, and Literature
5. Schmolling, Hoffmann, Hitzig, and the Problem of Legal Responsibility
6. The Drama of the Case: Making the Case of Woyzeck
7. Drama, Anecdote, Case: Wedekind’s Lulu
8. Conclusion: The Fiction of Authority
Part III. Novelistic Casuistry
9. Freud’s Cases
10. Fantasy of Facts: Döblin’s Poetics of Uncertainty
11. The Man of Possibilities: Musil’s Moosbrugger
12. Conclusion: The Function of Fiction
Bibliography
Index
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