This volume investigates the history of the case study genre and its relationship to different publics and audiences, from patients to social reformers, and from moral crusaders to literary audiences. It interrogates not only how case studies were used to communicate the findings of doctors, lawyers, and psychoanalysts, but also how case studies were used to refute and dispute academic knowledge. Contributors engage with case studies as a site of interdisciplinary negotiations and transnational influences and transferences, including the ways in which larger historical and geopolitical forces shaped a genre central to so many disciplinary and knowledge cultures.

Joy Damousi is Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Birgit Lang is Senior Lecturer in German at the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.

Katie Sutton is a Lecturer in German and Gender Studies at the Australian National University.

Foreword John Forrester Acknowledgments. Introduction: Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge
Joy Damousi, Birgit Lang and Katie Sutton Part I: Case Knowledge 1. The Case of the Archive Warwick Anderson 2. The Case Study as Representative Anecdote John Cash 3. Influencing Public Knowledge: Erich Wulffen and the Criminal Case of Grete Beier Birgit Lang 4. A Case for Female Individuality: Käthe Schirmacher-Self-Invention and Biography Johanna Gehmacher Part II: Historical Cases 5. Sexological Cases and the Prehistory of Transgender Identity Politics in Interwar Germany Katie Sutton 6. The Sad Tale of Sister Barbara Ubryk: A Case Study in Convent Captivity Timothy Verhoeven 7. The Curious Case/s of Dr. Wallace: Sexuality and the Medical File in Postwar Australia Lisa Featherstone 8. Sexuality and the Public Case Study in the United States, 1940-65 Joy Damousi Part III: Literary Circulations 9. The Overdetermined Literary Case Study of "New Objectivity": Alfred Döblin's Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord (1924) Alison Lewis 10. The Lunatics of Love: Armand Dubarry's Psychopathological Novels and Their Publics Jana Verhoeven 11. Making a Case for Castration: Literary Cases and Psychoanalytic Readings Christiane Weller 12. When the Case Writer Eclipses the Case: Linda Lê's Case Study of Ingeborg Bachmann Alexandra Kurmann