ISBN:
9781474405614
,
9781474405621
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 246 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Edinburgh critical studies in Romanticism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Coyer, Megan J. Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press
DDC:
820.9/3561
Keywords:
Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
;
Romanticism History 19th century
;
Literature and medicine History 19th century
;
Blackwood's magazine
;
Literatur
;
Medizin
;
Geschichte 1817-1858
Abstract:
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. 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.--Back cover
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 219-235
