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

• Superior document: North Carolina scholarship online
• VerfasserIn: Sommerville, Diane Miller,
• 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.

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.

Table of 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.