Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858
Seiten
2016
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-0560-7 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-0560-7 (ISBN)
Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press investigates how periodicals cultivated innovative literary forms, ideologies and discourses that reflected and shaped medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland.
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
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
Megan Coyer is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow and held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Humanities from 2012-2016.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 523 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-0560-6 / 1474405606 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-0560-7 / 9781474405607 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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