Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth- Century Periodical Press : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858 / Megan Coyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coyer, Megan, author.

Series:

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh University Press 2017

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical and literary ideas throughout Britain, the colonies, and beyond. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press explores the relationship between the medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland and the periodical press by examining several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and innovative literary periodical of the era.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Medicine and Blackwoodian Romanticism

1. Medical Discourse and Ideology in the Edinburgh Review

2. The Tale of Terror and the ‘Medico-Popular’ 3. ‘Delta’: The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon 4

3. ‘Delta’: The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon

4. Professionalisation and the Case of Samuel Warren’s Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician

5. The Rise of Public Health in the Popular Periodical Press: The Political Medicine of W. P. Alison, Robert Gooch, and Robert Fergus

Coda: Medical Humanism and Blackwood’s Magazine at the Fin de Siècle

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_627386