Acknowledgements Introduction Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis 1 The shifting case of masochism: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus im Pelz (1870) Birgit Lang 2 Fin-de-siecle investigations of the 'creative genius' in psychiatry and psychoanalysis Birgit Lang 3 'Writing back': literary satire and Oskar Panizza's Psichopatia criminalis (1898) Birgit Lang 4 Erich Wulffen and the case of the criminal Birgit Lang 5 Alfred Doeblin's literary cases about women and crime in Weimar Germany Alison Lewis 6 Viola Bernard and the case study of race in post-war America Joy Damousi Conclusion Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis Select bibliography Index -- .