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Author Sommerville, Diane Miller, author.

Title Aberration of mind : suicide and suffering in the Civil War-era South / Diane Miller Sommerville.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
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.
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Subject Suicide -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Suicide.
Southern States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Suicide -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Suicide -- Social aspects.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Psychological aspects.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
Social conditions.
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Sommerville, Diane Miller. Aberration of mind. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] (DLC) 2018005196
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