Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth- Century Periodical Press : : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858 / / Megan Coyer.

• VerfasserIn: Coyer, Megan
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 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, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical and literary ideas throughout Britain, the colonies, and beyond. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press explores the relationship between the medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland and the periodical press by examining several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and innovative literary periodical of the era.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Medicine and Blackwoodian Romanticism -- 1. Medical Discourse and Ideology in the Edinburgh Review -- 2. The Tale of Terror and the ‘Medico-Popular’ 3. ‘Delta’: The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon 4 -- 3. ‘Delta’: The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon -- 4. Professionalisation and the Case of Samuel Warren’s Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician -- 5. The Rise of Public Health in the Popular Periodical Press: The Political Medicine of W. P. Alison, Robert Gooch, and Robert Fergus -- Coda: Medical Humanism and Blackwood’s Magazine at the Fin de Siècle -- Select Bibliography -- Index