Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858 Coyer, Megan creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Walter de Gruyter & Co text dictionary Electronic books. History stk GB-SCT 2022 2016 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (256 pages). The first major study of the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and medical cultureIn 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. Key FeaturesDescribes a distinctive Scottish medical culture of the Romantic-era and its synergistic relationship with literary cultureAdvances our understanding of the medical content of key periodicals of the nineteenth centuryDraws upon extensive archival and bibliographical research to reclaim several previously neglected medico-literary figuresExamines the ideological roots of nineteenth-century popular medical writing. 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 specialized Megan Coyer. In English. Literature and medicine Scotland History 19th century Romanticism Scotland History 19th century Literary Studies Littérature et médecine Écosse Histoire 19e siècle Romantisme Écosse Histoire 19e siècle LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literature and medicine Romanticism Scotland 1800-1899 fast PR468.M42 C69 2017 820.9/3561 Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR 9781474405614 1474405614 2016478503 https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9781474405614 DEGRU 220830 20240212223745.0 in00004776191 eng