Aberration of mind : suicide and suffering in the Civil War-era South

Author/Creator:: Sommerville, Diane Miller, author
Publication/Creation:: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Resource Type:: Book

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Full Title:: Aberration of mind : suicide and suffering in the Civil War-era South / Diane Miller Sommerville

Subjects:: Suicide--Southern States--History--19th century
Suicide--Social aspects--Southern States--History--19th century
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Psychological aspects
Southern States--Social conditions--History--19th century

Table of 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.
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.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xiv, 429 pages ; 24 cm