Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858 / Megan Coyer
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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
2017.
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Colección: | Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425217506719 |
Sumario: | 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> |
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Notas: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Jun 2017). |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Público: | Specialized. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781474405621 9781474428880 |