Edinburgh University Press is delighted to announce the publication of:
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
‘This excellent book traces the emergence of medical humanism in the early nineteenth-century Scottish popular press. It is a model of scholarship, bringing into view a body of popular medical writing, distinctive in its Scottish identity and in its insistence that the oppositions of literature and science can be countered.’ - Sharon Ruston, Chair in Romanticism, Lancaster University
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.
Hb 9781474405607 | £70.00
December 2016 | 256 pages
Find out more at: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literature-and-medicine-in-the-nineteenth-century-periodical-press.html
A free open access version will also shortly be available for download via the EUP webpage and European PubMed Central.
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