Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858 / Megan Coyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coyer, Megan J., author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and medicine--Scotland--History--19th century.

Literature and medicine.

Romanticism--Scotland--History--19th century.

Romanticism.

Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine (Edinburgh, Scotland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Summary:

The first major study of the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and medical culture.<p>In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press investigates how Romantic periodicals cultivated innovative literary forms, ideologies and discourses that reflected and shaped medical culture in the nineteenth century. It examines several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential literary periodical of the time, and draws upon extensive archival and bibliographical research to reclaim these previously neglected medico-literary figures. Situating their work in relation to developments in medical and periodical culture, Megan Coyer's book advances our understanding of how the nineteenth-century periodical press cross-fertilised medical and literary ideas.</p> Key Features<ul><li>Describes a distinctive Scottish medical culture of the Romantic-era and its synergistic relationship with literary culture</li><li>Advances our understanding of the medical content of key periodicals of the nineteenth century</li><li>Draws upon extensive archival and bibliographical research to reclaim several previously neglected medico-literary figures</li><li>Examines the ideological roots of nineteenth-century popular medical writing</li></ul>

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Jun 2017).

ISBN:

1-4744-0562-2

1-4744-2888-6