Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / / Diane Miller Sommerville.

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 gendere...

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Superior document:North Carolina scholarship online
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Place / Publishing House:Chapel Hill : : University of North Carolina Press,, [2018]
©[2018]
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:North Carolina scholarship online.
Physical Description:1 online resource (447 pages)
Notes:Previously issued in print: 2018.
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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.
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9798890854575
146964357X
1469643588
Access:Open access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Diane Miller Sommerville.