2. “Observe, Write!”: Histories of Observation and the Psychological Novel Anton Reiser

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Making the Case around 1800
6. 1. The Case of Werther and the Institution of Literature 27
7. 2. “Observe, Write!”: Histories of Observation and the Psychological Novel Anton Reiser 49
8. 3. Hot and Cold: History, Casuistry, and Literature in Schiller and Kleist 71
9. 4. Conclusion: Literary Reference and Authorship 93
10. Part II. The Case between Psychiatry, Law, and Literature
11. 5. Schmolling, Hoffmann, Hitzig, and the Problem of Legal Responsibility 99
12. 6. The Drama of the Case: Making the Case of Woyzeck 114
13. 7. Drama, Anecdote, Case: Wedekind’s Lulu 132
14. 8. Conclusion: The Fiction of Authority 152
15. Part III. Novelistic Casuistry
16. 9. Freud’s Cases 157
17. 10. Fantasy of Facts: Döblin’s Poetics of Uncertainty 174
18. 11. The Man of Possibilities: Musil’s Moosbrugger 190
19. 12. Conclusion: The Function of Fiction 205
20. Bibliography 213
21. Index 229