Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858 / Megan Coyer [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910169182203321
• Autore: Coyer Megan J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-4744-0562-2; 1-4744-2888-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.
• Disciplina: 820.9/3561
• Soggetti: Literature and medicine - Scotland - History - 19th century; Romanticism - Scotland - History - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Jun 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The first major study of the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and medical culture.<p>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.</p> Key Features<ul><li>Describes a distinctive Scottish medical culture of the Romantic-era and its synergistic relationship with literary culture</li><li>Advances our understanding of the medical content of key periodicals of the nineteenth century</li><li>Draws upon ; extensive archival and bibliographical research to reclaim several previously neglected medico-literary figures</li><li>Examines the ideological roots of nineteenth-century popular medical writing</li></ul>