Aberration of mind : suicide and suffering in the Civil War-era South /
Sommerville, Diane Miller,
Aberration of mind : suicide and suffering in the Civil War-era South / Diane Miller Sommerville. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9781469643571 146964357X 9781469643588 1469643588
22573/ctv63tx7v JSTOR
Suicide--History--Southern States--19th century.
Suicide--Social aspects--History--Southern States--19th century.
Psychological aspects.
Social conditions.
Suicide.
Suicide--Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
HISTORY / Military / United States
United States--History--Psychological aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865
Southern States--Social conditions--History--19th century.
Southern States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
HV6548.U52 / S66 2018
362.280975/09034
Aberration of mind : suicide and suffering in the Civil War-era South / Diane Miller Sommerville. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9781469643571 146964357X 9781469643588 1469643588
22573/ctv63tx7v JSTOR
Suicide--History--Southern States--19th century.
Suicide--Social aspects--History--Southern States--19th century.
Psychological aspects.
Social conditions.
Suicide.
Suicide--Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
HISTORY / Military / United States
United States--History--Psychological aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865
Southern States--Social conditions--History--19th century.
Southern States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
HV6548.U52 / S66 2018
362.280975/09034