Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858 Contributor(s): Coyer, Megan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474405606 ISBN-13: 9781474405607 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
Additional Information |
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
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