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Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858
Contributor(s): Coyer, Megan (Author)
ISBN: 1474405606     ISBN-13: 9781474405607
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
OUR PRICE:   $114.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
Dewey: 820.935
LCCN: 2016478503
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.15 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:

The first major study of the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and medical culture

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.

Key Features

  • Describes a distinctive Scottish medical culture of the Romantic-era and its synergistic relationship with literary culture
  • Advances our understanding of the medical content of key periodicals of the nineteenth century
  • Draws upon extensive archival and bibliographical research to reclaim several previously neglected medico-literary figures
  • Examines the ideological roots of nineteenth-century popular medical writing

Case Studies

  • Medical Discourse and Ideology in the Edinburgh Review
  • The Tale of Terror and the 'Medico-Popular'
  • 'Delta' The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon
  • Professionalisation and the Case of Samuel Warren's Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
  • The Rise of Public Health in the Popular Periodical Press: The Political Medicine of W. P. Alison, Robert Gooch, and Robert Ferguson