Description |
1 online resource (pages cm) |
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text file |
Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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. |
Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
Subject |
Suicide -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Suicide -- Social aspects. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
Suicide. |
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Suicide -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Southern States -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
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Social conditions. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Psychological aspects.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books. .
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Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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ISBN |
9781469643588 |
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1469643588 |
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9781469643564 cloth alkaline paper |
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9781469643304 paperback alkaline paper |
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