Buchner and Madness : Schizophrenia in Georg Buchner's "Lenz" and "Woyzeck"

This study evaluates Georg Buchner's portrayal of insanity in his works "Lenz" and "Woyzeck" in relation to the medical opinion of his time, and to contemporaneous literary treatments of the same subject in German.

It provides a range of documentary evidence to reveal the accuracy of his insights.