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 Nine...

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Main Author:	Coyer, Megan J. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2017]
Series:	Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism
Subjects:	Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine (Edinburgh, Scotland) Blackwood's magazine Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1817-1858 Geschichte Literature and medicine / Scotland / History / 19th century Romanticism / Scotland / History / 19th century Medizin Literatur Schottland
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	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>
Item Description:	Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter
Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
ISBN:	9781474428880 9781474405621 9781474405614
DOI:	10.1515/9781474405614