Aberration of mind : suicide and suffering in the Civil War-era South /

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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Tác giả chính: Sommerville, Diane Miller (Tác giả)
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Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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