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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Hovedforfatter: Sommerville, Diane Miller (Author)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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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.
Fysisk beskrivelse:1 online resource (447 pages)
Bibliografi:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469643571 (e-book)
9781469643588 (e-book)