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

ISBN-13: 9781474431620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Megan Coyer

Opis

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.

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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.