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Aberration of Mind Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South
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Aberration of Mind [electronic resource] : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / Diane Miller Sommerville.
ISBN
1469643588
9781469643588
9781469643304 (pbk : alk. paper)
9781469643564 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
This book studies the meaning of suicide in the nineteenth-century South and how that meaning changed, if at all, as a result of the Civil War and its aftermath. It looks at the whole South while providing a more thorough examination than previous books of the dynamics of both the racial and gendered dimensions of suicide in the South during the long Civil War Era.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 US Regional Studies, South.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers
A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront
De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved
Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation
The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South
The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South
All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide
Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.
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