Aberration of Mind Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / Diane Miller Sommerville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sommerville, Diane Miller, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide--Social aspects--Southern States--History--19th century.

Suicide.

Suicide--Southern States--History--19th century.

Southern States--Social conditions--History--19th century.

Southern States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Psychological aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 pages)

Place of Publication:

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

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.

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908545-6-8

979-88-908545-7-5

1-4696-4357-X

1-4696-4358-8

OCLC:

1054245896