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

• Autore: Sommerville Diane Miller
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2018]; ©[2018]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (447 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.280975/09034; 362.28097509034
• Soggetto topico: Suicide - Social aspects - Southern States - History - 19th century; Suicide - Southern States - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Social conditions History 19th century; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Psychological aspects
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Aberration of Mind
• ISBN: 979-88-908545-7-5; 1-4696-4357-X; 1-4696-4358-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910494575903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: North Carolina scholarship online.