Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1869In 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. |
Contents
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Chapter 1 Medical Discourse and Ideology in the Edinburgh Review | 21 |
Chapter 2 The Tale of Terror and the MedicoPopular | 36 |
The Construction of a NineteenthCentury Literary Surgeon | 88 |
Chapter 4 Professionalisation and the Case of Samuel Warrens Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician | 124 |
The Political Medicine of W P Alison Robert Gooch and Robert Ferguson | 172 |
Coda Medical Humanism and Blackwoods Magazine at the Fin de Siècle | 204 |
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