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.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (447 pages) |
| Notes: | Previously issued in print: 2018. |
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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.