The Case of Literature: Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka

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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