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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1. Verfasser: Sommerville, Diane Miller (Verfasst von)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.