Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
Author | : Megan Coyer |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781474405614 |
ISBN-13 | : 1474405614 |
Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical and literary ideas throughout Britain, the colonies, and beyond. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press explores the relationship between the medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland and the periodical press by examining several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and innovative literary periodical of the era.