Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858

ISBN-13: 9781474405607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str.

Megan Coyer

Opis

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

Spis treści

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. 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 Ferguson; Coda: Medical Humanism and Blackwood’s Magazine at the Fin de Siècle; Bibliography.