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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
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 02, 2018)
Subject Suicide -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Suicide -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY -- Military -- United States.
Psychological aspects
Social conditions
Suicide
Suicide -- Social aspects
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Psychological aspects
Southern States -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century
Subject Southern States
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469643571
146964357X
9781469643588
1469643588